Revert .package files help!!!!

Once you have set a file type to be opened by a particular application, it will affect all files of that type anywhere on your system.
However the only harm that would be done, once you have opened a .package file using Word, would be to save the file. This would try to save the file as a Word doc and corrupt the file. As @MarLin114 suggests, you need to remove any files you may have accidentally changed as the game would most likely crash when trying to read such a file and the corrupt version may be stored in the cache.

Now for how to remove the link to Word. I can give you the instructions for Windows XP, I hope it will be similar for Windows 8, but take care as you could do more harm if you are not careful.

First, open Windows Explorer, any folder will do.

Next, select Tools from the menu bar and then Folder Options

A window similar to this will appear
http://s24.postimg.org/udfiz8dcl/package.png

Select the third tab File Types and find package in the list (pressing P will take you to the first item starting with P)
In my example I have 'accidentally' set package files to be opened by Notepad.

Now click Delete to delete the entry, you will get a warning about removing registered file extensions, go ahead and click Yes as you do not want .package files to be registered.

Finally, close the Folder Options window.

It wouldn't make any difference to the game. The link to auto-open in a particular program is just for the sake of convenience. It just makes the files' icons look ridiculous when the link to auto-open is set wrong.

Anyway, all you have do to "fix" this on most versions of Windows is right-click on any one .package file and select Open With > Choose Default Program. Then select something else like Notepad and make sure the box "Always Use Selected Program to Open this Kind of File" is ticked.

Or you could do it the way sirguylittle demonstrates above.

But unless you have a package editing program like S3PE installed, it doesn't matter what the default program to open is because you would never be opening package files anyway. If you do have S3PE, that would be a good program to select, though.

"RowanSage;14858417" wrote:

"igazor;13984901" wrote:
It wouldn't make any difference to the game. The link to auto-open in a particular program is just for the sake of convenience. It just makes the files' icons look ridiculous when the link to auto-open is set wrong.

Anyway, all you have do to "fix" this on most versions of Windows is right-click on any one .package file and select Open With > Choose Default Program. Then select something else like Notepad and make sure the box "Always Use Selected Program to Open this Kind of File" is ticked.

Or you could do it the way sirguylittle demonstrates above.

But unless you have a package editing program like S3PE installed, it doesn't matter what the default program to open is because you would never be opening package files anyway. If you do have S3PE, that would be a good program to select, though.

Actually, that doesn't work. I accidentally set all my package files to notepad a while ago, and I'm no longer able to use mods or any cc in a .package file format.

I've been looking around the internet and I have found a way to remove file assocation, but I can't remember the file extension for .package files.

Here's what I found. I haven't attempted it yet, but people have said it works.

1. Do WinKey+X and click Command Prompt (Admin)
2. Click 'Continue' or enter the admin password if you aren't signed in
3. In Command Prompt, enter 'assoc .*whatever file you want to delete assocation with (e.g. .ext .bin, things like that)*

I'm sorry to be stubborn about this, but something else must be wrong. File associations on their own have no bearing on how the game reads package files.

There is no standard association for that type of file because different programs use the ".package" type of file in different ways. If you must take action to change this, install a package editing program like S3PE or NRaas Packer that is actually capable of opening package files and make the association to that program.
http://simlogical.com/s3pe.htm
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Packer

I have a similar problem that i would like to resolve like how would i undo my Sims 3 package files from what S3pe has done to them their all like s3pe icons so because i play Sims 4 and that i don't what my s4 package files affected. Um also i know this is mad old but this is what i found while doing my search to resolve my problem i really would appreciate the help.

@ShojoDagger How do i do that like how do i change the package file extension?

There continues to be some misunderstanding of how file associations and extensions work here.

When a file appears to be a "type" by way of an icon that means Windows (or the Mac OS) has assigned an auto-launch application to ALL files that have that extension. It does not change the files. No one has "done" anything to them. If the file association looks wrong to us or is just plain silly, it still doesn't matter. The game and other programs read the files just the same as long as they have the correct underlying extension and are really the correct "type" internally.

If you have S3PE, or anything, set for .package files, then that is how ALL .package files will look to the user. The games can still tell the difference. If you want to change the auto-associated program for these files to something else, then you need to a program installed that would, to you, be a better choice. But again, the games don't care, it's all about how the files look to us in Windows Explorer (or the Mac OS Finder) and which application, if any, should launch if one were double-clicked upon.

Changing the actual extension a particular individual file has is not difficult, but why would anyone do that? That will change the nature of the files themselves and the games or intended program that is supposed to use them won't be able to read them if a file that was once really .package is now really .docx, .pdf, or something else. In other words, changing the actual underlying extensions of files often breaks them and makes the files useless. Both Windows and the Mac OS display a warning to this effect if you do try to change a particular file's underlying extension.

To give another example, suppose you have a file whose underlying extension is .xlsx which means the auto-association would typically be Excel (or some other spreadsheet program if installed). Presumably, the file is a spreadsheet internally. If you change the underlying extension to something else, let's say .jpg or .pdf, you can't correctly say look, now it's an image or a PDF file because it's not. The file would become garbage.

@igazor So nomatter what the game still will automatically recognize the files even tho the files are S3pe icons? So lets say i reinstall my GTA 5 and i want to edit some files in OpenIV but the files are s3pe icons would i still be able to even tho the files look like s3pe icons? and thanx for responding

@igazor Ok i had already uninstalled S3pe from my computer and all it's folders too

@Heliel22 I don't know if you have windows set to show all file extensions, the default setting in Windows is to not show them.
If you don't have them set to be displayed I suggest following this guide, How to show file extensions in Windows. It has instructions for all recent Windows versions & also explains what file extensions actually are & what they actually do, as well as why having them displayed helps with computer security.
Having the actual file extensions displayed is better than relying on the icon to tell you what type of file you're looking at & might help you figure out what is actually going on with your files. As you've discovered yourself, the icon only shows you which program is set to open that file type, & that program can be set/reset erroneously.

@ShojoDagger Yea i got it to show all file extensions i'm cool with it as long as i can see what is what thanx for the response.