GUIDE: What to back up in your Sims 3 folder.
Intro: As Simmers, we love to create, and as creators we love to NOT see our creations utterly destroyed by ill-timed hard drive crashes or viruses. In order to protect our creations, the smarte...
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Wonderful thread , thanks! I'm taking notes and have bookmarked it.
It especially caught my eye since I had to do a system restore after downloading the latest patch ( can't say for sure the patch caused it, but I have my suspicions!).
I normally back up Stuff to CD-R discs. You actually have more than I do! I looked my sims 3 folder is 7.11 GB.
I know about saving "saves", and I back up my downloads a lot, and worlds.
But I didn't know the whole downloads folder And DCBackup can all be deleted? I'm afraid to do it. It Would free up A lot of space though.
Just curious but where does the Launcher fit into all this. I know everything I've downloaded and installed is in Launcher SO if I delete downloaded sims3 packs , and this DCBackup - is the stuff all still in Launcher?? Or does it matter?
edit: all I can say is I hope when and if I get Fast Lane OR another patch comes out, my "saves" will install back in, uncorrupted if need be.
The patch borked my latest saved 'hood, and I had to delete it and start new.
It especially caught my eye since I had to do a system restore after downloading the latest patch ( can't say for sure the patch caused it, but I have my suspicions!).
I normally back up Stuff to CD-R discs. You actually have more than I do! I looked my sims 3 folder is 7.11 GB.
I know about saving "saves", and I back up my downloads a lot, and worlds.
But I didn't know the whole downloads folder And DCBackup can all be deleted? I'm afraid to do it. It Would free up A lot of space though.
Just curious but where does the Launcher fit into all this. I know everything I've downloaded and installed is in Launcher SO if I delete downloaded sims3 packs , and this DCBackup - is the stuff all still in Launcher?? Or does it matter?
edit: all I can say is I hope when and if I get Fast Lane OR another patch comes out, my "saves" will install back in, uncorrupted if need be.
The patch borked my latest saved 'hood, and I had to delete it and start new.
