How To Install Store Items

"EverclearBoy;c-16751824" wrote:
What if I don't have an entire Compilation but only parts of it, do I need to individually download those parts from the Comp? Or do I click the link the item is from and download it from there instead (especially if it's an entire set within a comp) (As long as there is no intention to ever get the entire compilation) I don't see what to do with the Gentleman's Lounge Collection, but I assume since that contains various parts from other sets that it'll all be there and there is no point in getting them from the Gentleman's Lounge Collection?

For example the Nov 2011 Compilation Set I don't own. But due to having got the Gentleman's Lounge and the Eloquently Eclectic Collection I have the Fissile Material End Table and Hydro Fission Aquarium.

Also once I started the game for the first time, In the DCCache it made two files "dcdb4.ebc.tmp" and "dcdb6.ebc.tmp" is that normal?

Thanks again for the help!

If you don't plan to get the compilations later, then yes, just install the sets you have from them first. Then, install the single pieces you do have. Some of the compilations are just pieces from other sets and compilations; so, no, there is no reason to get them. Yes, you can use the links to compilations and just download the parts you have.

Starting a brand new sims 3 folder AFTER renaming the old sims 3 folder means you won't have any ebc files.
If you already have a 4 and a 6, then you already have installed content in that folder.
The .tmp files are created whenever you use the launcher and access the exchange through uploading and/or downloading content. (Just installing store content creates no .tmp files for me on patch 1.67. I can't verify what it does on patch 1.69; BUT those ebc.tmp files are always safe to delete as they are just dups of .ebc files.