Please Help - I'm Tearing My Hair Out!!

[ZephyrZodiac]

If you mean the Sims2Pack file, you can double-click on the file and the SimsInstaller will open it and install it.  But if you want to be safe, there are two programs which many people use, one is the Clean Installer (mainly for installing houses safely) and the other is the MultiSims2Pack Installer.  I think you can get both of them from ModTheSims2.  The advantage of either of these is you don't get the unidentifiable long file names.

[simmiecal]

Go into windows explorer.
Tools
Folder options
Choose the tab - File types

Scroll down until you find the extension package and see what program is associated with it. Mine says DBPF because I've associated it with SimPE. What does your say? It should probably say Sims2Pack Clean Installer or Sims 2 Body Shop Package Installer.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Correct me if i'm wrong, emma, but I don't think that emma means that she wants to open a package file and look at the coding.  She merely wants to open the files so that they will show up in the game.

[simmiecal]

Correct me if i'm wrong, emma, but I don't think that emma means that she wants to open a package file and look at the coding.  She merely wants to open the files so that they will show up in the game.

I was wondering why her package files had the winrar icon in front of them. I thought maybe the package files were marked as winrar files and that's why sims wasn't recognizing them. I just wanted her to check the file properties for the package extension to make sure they weren't flagged incorretly.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, I don't know, but it just seems to me that somehow the files were messed up by Winrar when they were either saved, or when she tried to open them again, and it wouldn't take long to get them again.  And three of the files shown aren't package files they're PSD files.  They're the recolourijng templates for the modular sofa, so they wouldn't show in the game anyway!  The actual sofa files are normal package files.

[Process Denied]

This is a major stab in the dark but this happened to me after reinstalling.  We use to have only one user and after reinstalling windows we changed to two users so Sims and it's Simdom had it's own place.  Well, some how my download pathway was trying to access the downloads folder for the other user sight.  After a few screaming fits the pathway was fixed.  Everything works and I found that I now have two complete Sims games on my computer.  Awesome!! Twice the fun.

[emma.martin]

Awww Guys you are all the best!!! 

Not quite sure what's happened - but it's righted itself. I've said it before but i'll say it again, it's so nice to know that there is still a place where there are decent people who'll help out someone in a spot of bother.

Thank you, thank you, thank you

Em
xxx

[ZephyrZodiac]

Emma, I think we all came here in the first place looking for help, so it's only right that we should continue the tradition.  And you're welcome!

[BlueSoup]

P.S.  emma.martin, I really like your signature.