How To Install Store Items
My old step-by-step guide on how to install your store items without duplicate files with all the links has disappeared! It was here: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/807788/reinstall-store...
Forum Discussion
I'm already confused (again). I'm organizing my store items in folders: grouping them so it's easy when re-installing my game. This group with store material is going to be installed together, this group also and so on. I'm using @ciane's topic (this one and the one from the wayback machine) and files and @Me1620 store installation guide as my guide to decide which store items are going to be installed together and to craft my own excel file.
What I don't get is how the both of you have two worlds in one .ebc file. Roaring Heights, and that is the standard version, on my computer is already over 327 MB which exceed the recommended 200 MB. So how can you have it installed together with Barnacle Bay (Ciane) and Hidden Springs (Jodi)? How can you install a smaller and bigger world together anyway? As said in the original thread on the wayback machine. That thread says the file size has to stay under 200MB, which is 204,800 kb but it also says the compressed .ebc files has to stay below 270.000 KB which is more than 200 MB. That's confusing to me. How can I install Midnight Hollow with the patterns if MH is already over 330 MB? Eventually I'm going to install all worlds I own as standard version because I have purchased/being gifted them as standard version. The Premium Content that makes those worlds gold, I have bought/being gifted separately so I will install them as such (I don't know yet since I'm not there yet since I can't get pass how to install the first groups: patters and worlds).
Any assistance is much appreciated because I seem to miss something. Thank you. <3
PS. I'm going to install RH separately for a moment in a new TS3 folder: maybe the compressed .ebc size is below 270.000 and maybe that is the answer.
EDIT: Ok. so I did my PS. The .ebc file with just RH in it is 170.867 kb which is less than 200 MB (brilliant deduction, right ;) ). So the only logical conclusion can be: don't go by the .sims3pack file sizes mentioned in the folder or de launcher. Go by the size mentioned by the .ebc file and use this size to stay below 200 MB. Am I correct in my conclusion?
Ok, new plan. I'm first going to group all my items: world with worlds, venues with venues and so on. I also have lot of separate items, like CAS items, that are part of sets. So if I'm grouping all those sets, I can just toss those .sims3packs that are just one item. That should reduce the amount of .sims3packs I have a lot.
What I don't get is how the both of you have two worlds in one .ebc file. Roaring Heights, and that is the standard version, on my computer is already over 327 MB which exceed the recommended 200 MB. So how can you have it installed together with Barnacle Bay (Ciane) and Hidden Springs (Jodi)? How can you install a smaller and bigger world together anyway? As said in the original thread on the wayback machine. That thread says the file size has to stay under 200MB, which is 204,800 kb but it also says the compressed .ebc files has to stay below 270.000 KB which is more than 200 MB. That's confusing to me. How can I install Midnight Hollow with the patterns if MH is already over 330 MB? Eventually I'm going to install all worlds I own as standard version because I have purchased/being gifted them as standard version. The Premium Content that makes those worlds gold, I have bought/being gifted separately so I will install them as such (I don't know yet since I'm not there yet since I can't get pass how to install the first groups: patters and worlds).
Any assistance is much appreciated because I seem to miss something. Thank you. <3
PS. I'm going to install RH separately for a moment in a new TS3 folder: maybe the compressed .ebc size is below 270.000 and maybe that is the answer.
EDIT: Ok. so I did my PS. The .ebc file with just RH in it is 170.867 kb which is less than 200 MB (brilliant deduction, right ;) ). So the only logical conclusion can be: don't go by the .sims3pack file sizes mentioned in the folder or de launcher. Go by the size mentioned by the .ebc file and use this size to stay below 200 MB. Am I correct in my conclusion?
Ok, new plan. I'm first going to group all my items: world with worlds, venues with venues and so on. I also have lot of separate items, like CAS items, that are part of sets. So if I'm grouping all those sets, I can just toss those .sims3packs that are just one item. That should reduce the amount of .sims3packs I have a lot.
