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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zorba2357 wrote:
I think I get it. Downloads folder has ALL those tons of sims3 packs, The Launcher installs it and shows it all,and can also uninstall it.
But the DCCache is actually what has it in the game, or the game folder that contains all the downloaded stuff.
Yup! The Downloads folder contains your downloaded content in package form, which is basically a "ready-to-install" file format. When you do install a package file, the launcher writes its content to one of several files in DCCache, where it becomes ready to use in-game. Once the content is written to DCCache, the purpose of the original package file is complete and it no longer becomes necessary.
So optionally you can delete your packages or, as Nicarra60 just mentioned, you may decide to keep them in the event that you need to reinstall everything (like if a bad EA update corrupts your game). But if you choose not to keep your package files, you can always download them again from your Purchase History on The Store if you ever need them for one reason or another.
