Corrupt CC: Unable to find it

My babies are broken my toddlers are broken my game is broken and I am done. Goodbye for now, going on a long long hiatus. Because I have tried literally everything.

So you also tried what igazor suggested in his second paragraph or reinstalling the game?

I'm sorry that this is so frustrating for the OP. But the warnings about not to use downloaded sims (and lots) from the Exchange or other sources that do not screen their members' offerings without carefully inspecting them in Custard first are all over the place and have been widely discussed for years.

It sounds to me like the OP was hoping for a single step solution (get rid of/fix the sim OR get rid of the CC instance through the Launcher). Those won't work, the item(s) will just keep coming back. It could have been on multiple sims. Or represented in the DCCache dbc files multiple times or there could have been several bad CC items in play. These things can indeed be very cumbersome to get rid of, that I agree with, and reinstalling the game won't help either since the problem is in the TS3 user game folder in Documents, not in the Program Files. Carefully rebuilding the game folder without the suspect items and sims with the ultimate goal of moving ones saves into it (again without the installed sims in them) is the only way to go if the two steps of get rid of the sims and Method by Mell to purge the items through the Launcher are not effective or too difficult to use.

Hey @igazor this shows up in CAS when I click on it. Does any of that info help you identify it?

http://i67.tinypic.com/2i6nawx.jpg

@Missa_Sissa - That is identifying information for a CAS part yes, but I'm afraid that doesn't tell us all of the places where it is or could be hiding in your game folder. As mentioned, downloaded sims can be carrying it (even if they aren't wearing it) as revealed through Custard and it likely keeps ending up going from there to the dbc files in the DCCache folder. In addition, as another player mentioned, it could be copied into DCBackup if you don't routinely clear that out (except for the one required ccmerged.package file).

That info could be used to hide the item from CAS catalogs (that the player sees) or to do up an NRaas Dresser mod invalid parts blacklist, but these aren't what you want here as they don't really remove the item from the game folder.

If that is indeed the (or one) offending part, then I guess that would be the item code (the "instance number") to be looking for when examining downloaded sims in Custard so that might help identify it there.

Perhaps someone else here will know what else can be done with that information, but as far as I know there are no shortcuts to flushing these things out that haven't already been described.

@Missa_Sissa

You are chasing the wind! You have some bad stuff in your game, more than just one thing. Just to elaborate on igazor's very good advice in simple terms:

1. Go to documents and pull your Electronic Arts folder out, drop it on your desktop.
2. Open your game, which will create a new Electronic Arts folder.
3. Open your old and your new Electronic Arts folder. Transfer from your old folder to your new folder these items - anything in ContentPatch folder, the ccmerged.package in your DCBackup folder, any files in the DCCache folder that end with .ebc (that is your store content). If you have any store lots installed you can transfer those from your library.
4. Start your game. This will be a cc-free game save. If you're real attached to one of your saves add it to the saves folder and see if it works, and if the bad cc appears again, start this process all over again and don't add your save.

Don't delete the old folder until you know you have everything from it that you want. You can now add back your cc back a little at a time but check with custard or learn how to convert s3p's to package files so you can just take it out if it causes problems. I recommend not installing sims unless you learn to use custard because even if people say they are 'cc free', if they have bad cc in their game folder it could tag along.

ETA: Any saved sims or library files could be infected, so I wouldn't transfer those unless you're willing to start all over again. Also check screenshots for any pictures you want before deleting the old folder. Also transfer any store worlds from your 'InstalledWorlds' folder.

"ZeeGee;c-16392475" wrote:
@Missa_Sissa

You are chasing the wind! You have some bad stuff in your game, more than just one thing. Just to elaborate on igazor's very good advice in simple terms:

1. Go to documents and pull your Electronic Arts folder out, drop it on your desktop.
2. Open your game, which will create a new Electronic Arts folder.
3. Open your old and your new Electronic Arts folder. Transfer from your old folder to your new folder these items - anything in ContentPatch folder, the ccmerged.package in your DCBackup folder, any files in the DCCache folder that end with .ebc (that is your store content). If you have any store lots installed you can transfer those from your library.
4. Start your game. This will be a cc-free game save. If you're real attached to one of your saves add it to the saves folder and see if it works, and if the bad cc appears again, start this process all over again and don't add your save.

Don't delete the old folder until you know you have everything from it that you want. You can now add back your cc back a little at a time but check with custard or learn how to convert s3p's to package files so you can just take it out if it causes problems. I recommend not installing sims unless you learn to use custard because even if people say they are 'cc free', if they have bad cc in their game folder it could tag along.

ETA: Any saved sims or library files could be infected, so I wouldn't transfer those unless you're willing to start all over again. Also check screenshots for any pictures you want before deleting the old folder. Also transfer any store worlds from your 'InstalledWorlds' folder.

I've literally done all of that. It doesn't seem to be glitching too bad, though it's annoying how Custard and Delphy's Dashboard aren't showing any corrupted packages. I guess I'll play as is for now.

You've done all that and still have the corrupt CC? Then you're putting something back into that folder that has the corrupt CC attached.

Custard and Dashboard are very useful but they are old tools that have not been updated and will not recognize everything that is corrupt.

"Missa_Sissa;c-16392423" wrote:
Hey @igazor this shows up in CAS when I click on it. Does any of that info help you identify it?

http://i67.tinypic.com/2i6nawx.jpg

Instance numbers can only help locate cc if they are in .package form. For .package form cc use this tutorial to locate cc by instance numbers:
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Finding+CC+In+The+Packages+Folder+Using+Instance+Numbers

This is why I don't download Sims from the exchange because you never know what you are downloading!