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...
Forum Discussion
Nicarra60 wrote:
DC Cache - I deleted mine yesterday. I was having trouble with store content - I could download it, I could try to install it but it wasn't showing up in game. A friend suggested deleting it and while I had to reinstall everything - my store content is back. But I had kept the DC Backups and Downloads so reinstalling the content wasn't as painful as downloading and installing.
So it is a good idea to copy it, you might want to store the backups/downloads folders in case you need to reinstall.
That's a good point. I'll make sure and add that players may optionally want to backup their Downloads folder in the event that they need to reinstall items. But I do still think DCBackup is useless considering it contains all of the same package files as Downloads. I've read quite a few threads where even players like Twallan can't figure out why DCBackup exists, lol.
Thanks for the input!
