little jump bug - log attached
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: miros on 2006 December 19, 06:34:21
You mean one of the hex-filenames that the Maxis installer makes? I wonder whatever possessed the Maxis employees to not use the filenames from the sims2pack files. Third dumbest thing they ever did.
The reason Maxis does this is because people often arbitrarily rename those files. Thus, some kind of systematic naming convention was needed so that the retrieving computer did not end up with two of the same thing.
However, people tend to arbitrarily rename those files, and different versions of the same file produce different checksums and therefore different Maxis-names, and so you're back to square one.
Marhis:
I find extremely useful to put all the Downloads content in subfolders; if you didn't sort them, put all your stuff in a subfolder anyway. In this way, when the installer put the crap in Downloads folder you can immediately spot them, 'cause they are the only files not subfoldered. Put them in another subfolder labeled "crap" or whatever, and you're ready for another installation.
Usually, I found out also that that crap is 99% deletable without even notice their loss.
On Macintosh you may also label all the files with colors (useful if you don't have NL, and you can't subfolder bodyshop stuff), so all the newly installed stuff is uncolored and easy to spot and sort.
dizzy:
Over the past few years, I've noticed the .NET ninjas out there seem to have some weird hashing fetish. I don't see why they couldn't have just added the needed ID data into a meta resource. Maybe it makes too much sense. :P
Hashing really only makes sense if you're building a large dictionary data structure internally. If the user can see it, you're obviously not using it right.
miros:
Quote from: dizzy on 2006 December 19, 12:52:49
Over the past few years, I've noticed the .NET ninjas out there seem to have some weird hashing fetish. <snip>
Yet another reason to despise .NET/C#.
Liss:
it's a good thing I use subfolders, makes it a lot easier to track these things down.
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