Deleted Maxis Recolors Appearing in Game as flashing blue
SaraMK:
I think I remember someone else having this problem because the files they deleted were set to read-only and so were not really deleted. But it's all very vague in my mind so I could be mistaken.
Try selecting your entire Downloads folder, remove read-only from all files inside it, and then see if you can then delete the flashing blue recolors.
Magicmoon:
I made all the files read only, but then I realized there is still no way to delete what I need. I got the names of the offending files by turning on testingcheats and then mousing over the blue icons. Then I did a search of the download folder for the offending files and they weren't there.
I'm going to try one more thing. I'll take the sensible bookcases out of the game, load the game, then put them back in and reload. Maybe that will reset whatever type of hidden cache has them. I've deleted the cache and thumbnails already, so I don't know where this info is being stored, unless it is being stored in the item itself. I don't even know if items can do that or not.
It takes my game 20 minutes to load, so I'm not looking forward to this double load time just to find out that those stupid blue flashing things are still around.
RainbowTigress:
If you take everything out and then move back only what you know you need a little at a time, it shouldn't take as long to load until you get back close to as much as you had before.
Magicmoon:
Quote from: magicmoon on 2006 August 06, 11:15:24
I've deleted the cache and thumbnails already, so I don't know where this info is being stored, unless it is being stored in the item itself. I don't even know if items can do that or not.
I *think* I solved the problem. After I wrote the above I started thinking. Could it be stored in an object? I don't know much about SimPE, but I loaded in the sensible bookcase file and started poking around (after backing up of course).
In the material definitions there were several colors listed, and among them was the weird file names that I couldn't find in my downloads folder. I deleted those definitions. Hopefully when I load the game back in, all will be well. If not, since I now know where the info was being stored, I can redownload the bookcase and I should be able to get the original back without all the flashing blue icons.
Thanks for everyone that answered and helped. Yes, even things that don't work help because it gets me to thinking. I'm too tired to test it right now, but hopefully the problem will now be solved.
Edit: Problem Solved
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