Duplicate Catalog Items
moniquinin:
Emma, the problem with that is at least for me on my Mac, (let's see if I can explain this unconfusingly)...let's say I have a house that uses "red mosaic tile floor 3". (I'm making this up for the sake of this post). I have in my downloads folder, in the build subfolder, in the floor subfolder the file saved as redmosaictile3.package, right, or most likely with the creator's name at the beginning For whatever reason this is showing up twice now. Ok so now let's say I do what you suggest - I package a lot that has this floor tile, plus the other dozen duped files, and all the res of the build stuff from the lot. Once I reinstall the lot, all the files will be renamed something like this: fb8f0270b7e007f6d494b842ffcc5ca2_0001.package, and I then have no idea wtf is what.
What I did last time is try to identify inside the game which file is which, remember what they were, make copies of them on my desktop, delete from the game and place the copies back in the folder, which is a huge PITA and I did lose a few and never managed to remember where I dled them from in the first place.
witch:
I posted about duplicate files a long time ago on MATY and no-one else seemed to have the same problem. My problem appears to be when I use, say a wall colour, that is stored in a subfolder in my downloads folder, the game will create a duplicate file in the root of the downloads folder. I do a cull of doubles every now and then with Sims2Pack Clean Installer, sorted by the md5 thingy. I don't think the game does this for all used files, just some.
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Emma:
I have no idea ow to solve the problem then moniquinin :D Sorry.
moniquinin:
That's all right, Emm :-*, I'm sure if there were a useful utility for mac like clean installer, things would be better. It's just an agravation.
Magicmoon:
Did a few tests. Found some info, and solved the problem in a unique way.
First I deleted the build mode cache, before ever posting this thread. That didn't solve the problem. I made a new, clean Sims2 folder and put all my floors into it. I have no duplicate floors now, so it has to be in a cache somewhere, just not the build mode cache that I deleted before.
moniquinin: If WTF works for Mac, then I suggest you try that program. You can batch rename all the walls, floors, and terrains and it will use the name that you get on mouseover inside the game for the new name instead of those stupid numbers. If you would rather name each one yourself, you can do that too, as well as change the prices, what sound is made when walking on it, and stuff like that.
http://www.djssims.com/index.php?category=21
In the end, I solved the problem when I made a new Sims2 folder by renaming my old one and then running the game and then closing it. Then I put all my downloads and neighborhoods into the new folder, as well as my config and startup.cheat files. If you do this you must be sure your neighborhoods are numbered correctly, which should only be a problem if you deleted one of the 3 that come with the game. I did not do this method to fix the floor and walls problem, but to do something else totally unrelated. It's just that I realized while I was working, that the floors and walls were correct now.
I'm not suggesting this is the best way to do this, only how I fixed it. The best way would be to figure out which cache is holding this bogus info and delete it. I just don't know which one it is.
Quote from: moniquinin on 2007 February 19, 13:26:57
This has happened to me as well, just with floors though (I think) and all I've done is play the damn game, since I'm on a Mac and can't do much else regarding the custom content.
Actually, upon thinking about it, I think this happens after I do the following:
1. Install a lot that I've dled from MTS2.
2. Entered the lot, looked around, realise I don't like it.
3. Bulldozed the lot, and probably deleted it from my lot bin. (not sure if this is a big nono)
That is how I do it, and I believe that is the correct way. The only no-no that I know of, is for the lot to have Sims in it when being being deleted. Besides, when I install the lots, I usually don't install the floors and walls unless I really, really like them, so I don't see how this could be causing the duplicate catalog pics, but who knows?
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