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Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« on: 2007 September 01, 07:12:03 »
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Just did a clean install, and I'll be trying out a new custom hood this time around.  If I want to use N001 template only, then am I safe to delete the other hoods?  Would they need to be deleted both from My Documents folder and from C:\Program files? 

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« Reply #1 on: 2007 September 01, 07:38:37 »
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Just delete them from My Documents.  If you delete them from program files as well, you'll NEVER be able to get them back without an uninstall, reinstall.

Of course, you could always create back ups and store them somewhere, but I'd imagine that the only advantage of deleting them from program files would be to save space on your hard drive.
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« Reply #2 on: 2007 September 01, 10:04:39 »
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I'd imagine that the only advantage of deleting them from program files would be to save space on your hard drive.

Okay, Ness, good to know! Thanks!

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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #3 on: 2007 September 01, 10:07:17 »
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Well, even if you stupidly delete them from the install folder, you can still get them back from disk. TS2's files are easily accessible inside compressed.zip (bless whoever thought of this -- I hate the untransparant cabinets most games use).
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« Reply #4 on: 2007 September 01, 12:54:59 »
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And you can always use a cleaned up template to play them - that way you get to keep any of the houses you want, the hood is already decorated so it saves some time in setting up a new hood with those templates, and if you ever get young visitors who want to play Sims 2, you can always say yes, but you have to play Strangetown or Veronaville, Pleasantview is a no go area!
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #5 on: 2007 September 01, 13:25:47 »
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You mean you let other people play your sims? I am so selfish, I don't Cheesy It's mine I tell ya! I am lucky my old pc still works as I have the sims installed on that upstairs, up to Pets. Daughter and friends play on that version.
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« Reply #6 on: 2007 September 01, 13:35:27 »
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Not often, I'll admit!  I used to let my neighbour's lad play occasionally, but after I got the laptop, he plays on that instead, and I made him his own account on that so he can play whichever hood he wants.

I'm now into playing themes, (so I don't have bursting at the seams downloads folders) and in my present one I only have two custom hoods.

I also have a plethora of renamed Pleasantviews all in the same folder, at present, though I'll probably eventually play them in different themes. 
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« Reply #7 on: 2007 September 01, 22:56:31 »
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I'm very territorial when it comes to my computer.  Not only would no visitor be allowed to play my sims, no visitor would be allowed to touch my computer at all.  DH is the same.  That's why a 2-person household needs 5 computers.
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« Reply #8 on: 2007 September 01, 23:03:46 »
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Well, he wasn't allowed to play MY sims!  And it was mainly while I was showing him how to play and build etc.  He wasn't playing unsupervised - no way!
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #9 on: 2007 September 01, 23:06:41 »
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Not even my husband is not allowed to touch the computer without prior permission, so imagine my anger when I discovered my visiting father-in-law had downloaded crap Big Fish games while I was out shopping...
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« Reply #10 on: 2007 September 01, 23:10:51 »
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Seems like you need to have a password!
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« Reply #11 on: 2007 September 02, 00:14:58 »
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I hate the untransparant cabinets most games use
  Huh?  Tell me more, Jordi.  Which cabinets?  Huh

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« Reply #12 on: 2007 September 02, 09:00:30 »
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He's saying that if you muck up your game because you deleted one stupid file, you can get it back easily from the game cd rather than doing a whole re-install. Most games aren't so forgiving.
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« Reply #13 on: 2007 September 02, 09:43:26 »
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Yup. Most games that use the Installshield installer (99% of them?) hide the content in the cabinet format (.cab files), which I have found no reader for. So if you need a single file back, you're going to have to do a full reinstall.
With TS2 you just open compressed.zip and grab it.
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #14 on: 2007 September 02, 09:51:33 »
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TS2's files are easily accessible inside compressed.zip

If you have the Mac edition of the game, instead, you have to ctrl-clic on the application, choose "Show Package contents" and open the subsequent folders till you find Archive.pax.gz. Copy this file from the DVD to the Desktop (or wherever you want, on your hard disc), double-clic and let it expand.

This archive is compressed with gzip and pax, but luckily the archiver built-in in the system can expand both formats.
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #15 on: 2007 September 02, 13:04:20 »
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If you make your objects.package file read only as soon as you install it, or after a patch then it shouldn't get corrupted. 
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #16 on: 2007 September 02, 13:44:21 »
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Jordi- I'm puzzled- I can extract .cab files using WinRAR or Ultimate Zip. Are you talking about different types of cabinet files?
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #17 on: 2007 September 02, 15:29:04 »
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Obviously.
Have you ever tried extracting the cab files that come with Installshield?
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #18 on: 2007 September 03, 17:32:51 »
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Hehe, I hadn't until now- I found an application which claims to support Installshield cabs, but it didn't work for me:
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract
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Re: Getting rid of Veronaville and Strangetown?
« Reply #19 on: 2007 September 03, 18:16:21 »
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Interesting tool. I'll give it a look.
There are a (very) few applications I still need to make Vista-compatible somehow, getting access to the raw installer data can help.
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