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BlueSoup:
Everything can now be put in subfolders upon subfolders upon....well, you get the idea. :D
And they can all live in the Downloads folder. If you force your Clean Installer to do a scan of your SavedSims folder, and then move all your stuff to the subfolder of your choice in Downloads, it wouldn't take tooooooo long to move it all. Probably less than 15 minutes, depending on just how much stuff you have in there (I have several gigs, and it takes me about 15-20 minutes).
KittKitt:
Quote from: BlueSoup on 2006 September 11, 23:33:54
Everything can now be put in subfolders upon subfolders upon....well, you get the idea. :D
And they can all live in the Downloads folder. If you force your Clean Installer to do a scan of your SavedSims folder, and then move all your stuff to the subfolder of your choice in Downloads, it wouldn't take tooooooo long to move it all. Probably less than 15 minutes, depending on just how much stuff you have in there (I have several gigs, and it takes me about 15-20 minutes).
Thanks Blue, that's what I was looking for.
It's not the time required to physically move the files that's gonna be the problem, but now that I'm able to sort things, going in there and manually checking what everything is and moving it to a proper sub is gonna be hell.
I like to keep my content all sorted by creator, function, etc.. so this might take a while. I think I have about um... 3000 files (give or take) in Saved Sims. Some of it's skins, some is clothing, etc, etc. Would be very nice to actually have those all organized so any time I might want/need to, I can go look at JUST eyes by Helane (or whatever have you).
And yes, I'm fully aware that my masochistic levels of organization probably merit professional help, but eh. I can live with that more than I can a big messy folder. LOL
-Kitt
BlueSoup:
But the Clean Installer does that for you.
Say you go into your Downloads folder and make folders for everything you want to add. Since you mentioned Helaene eyes, let's start there.
I personally have Genetics separate.
Genetics
Eyes
Helaene
Lyran
To give an example of how my subfoldering would work. Even though I don't use custom eyes, other than defaults. :P
So, if you make that folder, you can set the Clean Installer loose on your Saved Sims folder, and it will also read any and all subfolders you have in your Saved Sims folder as well. So then just sort by type (click the type header) and it will sort all eyes. Sometimes the creator will put their name in the tooltips as well, so if you move all of them at the same time, it will be easy peasy.
Also, if they are already in folders inside your Saved Sims folder, you could just move all the folders manually to your Downloads folder. Take two minutes.
Of course, after I started writing this, I realized you probably knew all this, but I kept on writing anyway, because I didn't want to delete all my hard work. :P
KittKitt:
:D
Yeah, I know Clean Installer will make this a lot easier, though sometimes it doesn't manage to know what something is quite right. Being I'm uber-picky about this stuff, it means I'll pretty much have to actually look at everything one by one to be sure it's not lying to me. ;)
All in all, it won't really be *too* bad, but it's gonna take some time to wade through, since previously I wasn't able to sort the saved sims folder -or at least, that's what I had been told, so it's all just one big huge mess right now. ;)
Either way though, once I'm done I'll feel a lot better, and won't ever have to worry about this sort of mess again, which will be really nice. :)
-Kitt
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