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« Reply #275 on: 2011 August 29, 17:46:42 »
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I think I may be over-thinking this. Could someone please confirm or deny whether I have things straight?:

- Compressing (recompressing?) and decrapifying are two separate functions. You can compress files without also decrapifying them, and you can decrapify them without also compressing them.
- Compressing files is non-destructive. Decrapifying them is destructive, and requires you to decrapify your save files, too, in order for things to work properly.

I've never had to decrap any of my saves. I believe that is only needed if you change the format of your pirated CC mid game. everything else you have seems right. I only ever decrap, I don't see the need to compress stuff.
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« Reply #276 on: 2011 August 29, 21:42:19 »
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I was hoping that Pescado would answer this one since I still have some doubts. I can confirm, based on my experience,  only the following:
- Compressing (recompressing?) and decrapifying are two separate functions. You can compress files without also decrapifying them.
- Compressing files is non-destructive. 
I compress (but do not decrapify) because I do not want to use the Launcher and I convert all store sims3packs to packages that I merge afterwards.

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« Reply #277 on: 2011 September 02, 05:09:49 »
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I thought it was redundant to compress prior to merging files since they are compressed in s3pc.
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« Reply #278 on: 2011 September 02, 05:15:47 »
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I still did not figure out how to inspect/view packages in s3pe if they weren't previously "compressorized"/"dragged into s3rc"
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« Reply #279 on: 2011 September 05, 14:08:40 »
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I still did not figure out how to inspect/view packages in s3pe if they weren't previously "compressorized"/"dragged into s3rc"

You can't open store content without doing that first.

On another note, the whole decrapping the lot to get your pirated CC to show up does work now. I do have a question though, I downloaded this lot, and upon decrapping it, it no longer wants to install, via the launcher. I keep getting the update your game error. Would anyone happen to know of a reason why this is happening? Just for clarification I have all EP/SP's, game's fully patched, I use decrapped sims3packs, my s3rc and decrap files are updated and it was decrapped properly, the time stamp changed on the file.
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« Reply #280 on: 2011 September 06, 06:17:40 »
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Lots are not installed via the launcher, they are installed by dumping them into your Library directory, so I have no idea what you are doing.
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« Reply #281 on: 2011 October 21, 19:06:53 »
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Decrapping the Pet Shop breaks the register.
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« Reply #282 on: 2011 October 21, 19:09:28 »
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Can we be more specific about "breaks"? This is not useful. Also, do a CRTL-SHIFT-Click on the register and tell me what "What's This?" says.
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« Reply #283 on: 2011 October 21, 19:57:27 »
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Can we be more specific about "breaks"? This is not useful. Also, do a CRTL-SHIFT-Click on the register and tell me what "What's This?" says.

Sorry, when you click "browse" a pop up saying it's a pets register pops up. When you click "buy" the two sims have a conversation then nothing. I'm most likely doing it wrong but when I CRTL-SHIFT-Click on the register all I get is the "nuke" option.
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« Reply #284 on: 2011 October 21, 20:06:40 »
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Do "setconfig awesomedebug true", then do the CRTL-SHIFT-CLICK. Screenshot the "What's This" report so I can identify the offending object.
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« Reply #285 on: 2011 October 21, 20:41:25 »
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« Reply #286 on: 2011 November 03, 15:07:20 »
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Hello, hopefully someone can help me. (Sorry for my bad English, I used the Google translator. Grin)
I've downloaded a few things and my launcher always said "Installation failed. Please install the latest software updates and try again" (though I've installed a few days ago the new add-on). So I've pulled all my downloads on the two files "decrapify.exe" and "s3rc.exe". The new downloads work now. And now:
About half of the downloads that I had previously installed, no longer as easy to install and it appears the same message, as already said.  Embarrassed
What can I do now?  Huh
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« Reply #287 on: 2011 November 03, 15:39:13 »
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Decrapify them? I have never had any problems with installing an item after being decrapified. If the problem is non-EAxian content...you should not install those using the launcher!
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« Reply #288 on: 2011 November 30, 10:21:40 »
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I assume the pet register is the same issue as with the spellbook, in that there is a reference in the script to an ID changed by decrapify? I wonder if this is going to be a regular occurrence now, if so, it will be a real pain.
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« Reply #289 on: 2011 November 30, 14:03:46 »
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There's a pet register workaround on here somewhere, Anach.
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« Reply #290 on: 2011 November 30, 16:02:40 »
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There's a pet register workaround on here somewhere, Anach.

It's included with Am now, isn't?
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« Reply #291 on: 2011 December 01, 06:50:58 »
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Fix for that is integral to AwesomeMod, so yes.
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« Reply #292 on: 2011 December 02, 10:39:34 »
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There's a pet register workaround on here somewhere, Anach.

Yeah it's pretty simple. Don't decrapify the register item and use it as a .package override. Or use AM.
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« Reply #293 on: 2012 August 20, 21:21:14 »
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Decrapifying Lunar Lakes (and putting the package in installed worlds) makes the pipes disappear all except for the dropshadows lol.  Any ideas why this might be?  If you save the game like this, they don't reappear when you replace the installed world file with the original .world.
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« Reply #294 on: 2012 August 23, 04:07:27 »
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Not sure. Maybe it's a new filetype we haven't previously encountered that needs to have its linkages repaired. I will try to find an opportunity to take a look at this, as I have not kept up with crazy store shenanigans. You should not be manually moving any files: Does this problem exist when you decrapify/install the regular way?
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« Reply #295 on: 2012 August 23, 12:26:52 »
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I was experimenting with editing the installed world file to remove unroutable terrain.  That part of the experiment worked (see http://www.den.simlogical.com/denforum/index.php?topic=1207.0 ).  So of course I had to remove the store protection

Then someone said don't use the decrapifier, use s3rc to unprotect it.  So I did that and no longer had the problem with disappeared pipes.  From my point of view that solves my problem, but I was interested in what lay behind it anyway.
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« Reply #296 on: 2012 August 23, 15:36:06 »
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Every once in a while decrapping something also changes some of the mesh group IDs as well, like the Target female baseball outfit. It sounds like this could be the case here, maybe.
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« Reply #297 on: 2012 August 25, 23:20:00 »
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I've been reading and lurking, but I haven't found a mac version of the TS3 Recompressor. Does it exist?
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« Reply #298 on: 2012 August 26, 13:00:47 »
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I've been reading and lurking, but

. . . not very well. This has been asked and answered.
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« Reply #299 on: 2012 August 29, 17:08:22 »
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Then someone said don't use the decrapifier, use s3rc to unprotect it.  So I did that and no longer had the problem with disappeared pipes.  From my point of view that solves my problem, but I was interested in what lay behind it anyway.
That is an interesting question I don't apparently have an answer for. I pulled open the file and took a look, but couldn't see anything particularly interesting that jumped out.

Every once in a while decrapping something also changes some of the mesh group IDs as well, like the Target female baseball outfit. It sounds like this could be the case here, maybe.
This is supposed to happen, but at least with all known filetypes, the altered links should be automatically repaired. Did something happen to that outfit?
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