Organising Downloads
Lorelei:
I don't use SimCat's delete or move functions. I open up my Downloads folder and move/delete manually. Faster.
SimCat is smart enough to recognize many of the alterations on the fly, too.
Missing items tend to be recolours or hacks or items that are tied to primary objects (like Merola's paintings or 2J's Lady In Red items).
Unseen subitems sometimes show up as purple boxes with question marks, just like items you have not seen in the game yet. All depends on what they are.
I use all the tools for different things.
Dbnguy:
Welcome to LAST YEAR !!! :-)
For me its more like yesterday :-)
Yea, it is painstakingly (Grammer Police some help here please !!) slow, but its far easier to use for idiots like me hee hee hee.
although one thing I didnt know tho, is that it only shows stuff that is in USE in the game. SHIT !!!!!
But have moved my downloads and moving them into sub folders one by one. Quite frankly, if It isnt in the game by now then its probably one of those MILLIONS of items I downloaded in a whim and nevere used anyway :-)
At least this way tho, I can start fresh !!!!!
Hegelian:
Organizing an already-full Downloads folder is a painful and thankless task. The easiest way IMO is to rebuild it from scratch from your archived ZIP and RAR files (you do keep the files you download, right?). You can create a Downloads folder at a location outside the game folders, and build it up over time, at your convenience. When it's done, just replace the existing Downloads folder with your new one.
One real advantage of this method is that you're likely to end up culling out a lot of stuff you don't really use or want.
You can also move and delete files from within the Clean Installer. This will show you the type and in-game name of the item, but some things are difficult to identify from the accompanying thumbnail. You can sort by name, category, folder, or MD5 (useful for finding duplicates).
Properly done, the only file in the root Downloads folder will be the CEP. ;D
Zazazu:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 June 27, 16:02:42
Organizing an already-full Downloads folder is a painful and thankless task. The easiest way IMO is to rebuild it from scratch from your archived ZIP and RAR files (you do keep the files you download, right?).
Um, why? If you ask me, that's just a waste of space. You already have it on disk, and most likely backed up. Why save it in the original form as well?
My organization started with Delphy's program, because then I could plop everything into folders like Hegelian's (one for build mode, objects, decorative, hacks, clothing, hair, default replacement skins/face templates/eyes, walls, floors, accessories, and miscellaneous stuff). Then binned my hair. Then I compressorized, which I should have saved for last, but meh. Tried to run Paladin's program and it wouldn't recognize the compressed files...or something. So I deleted in-game, in stages, over a week or so. Then geneticized some eyes and cleaned all the clothing files that have jewelry on them (usually they look like flat fake crap and ruin an otherwise perfect outfit, and I prefer to use accessorized stuff). Now I'm down to half the size on disk, and probably 3/4 the size in-game. This means I can get more crap. Yay!
Dbnguy:
Yea I keep all the downloaded files, but problem is I dont know what half of them are :-) This way at least, I am starting fresh with the files I know and use AND LIKE, getting rid of all the others, then just keep on making backups of my downloads folder.
Have learnt from others on this site, to copy all downloads into a NEW directory, test them and play with them, then I will use Catergorizer to move them into the appr dirs and delete the files I dont like. Sadly, as mentioned, sorting all this out is a thankless job, but better of fnow, than 2 weeks time when I have over a million !!1
One question tho, this compressor thingie, I presume it will simply reduce file sizes to free up more space for more files :-) How will it affect the already compressed files if I run it every so often to update the newer downloads????
Tx
Lee
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