Safeguards?
Hello all! :) I'm technically not new to Sims 3. I have all of the expansions, most of the stuff packs, most of the worlds, etcetera. I just haven't played much at all since Sims 4 came out. And ...
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"lisasc360;c-16229785" wrote:
...as well as getting getting of the FeaturedItems folder. I know there is a way to keep the featureitems folder from showing up in the TS3 folder but I haven't yet tried it.
There are two effective ways to manage FeaturedItems.
1 - Set the folder to be Read Only for the current user and at the System level, then empty it out. This has always worked for me, for some reason it doesn't for everyone.
2 - Delete the folder entirely. Create and save a text document using Notepad, Word, whatever you like, called FeaturedItems, but with extensions showing remove the .txt or .rtf (whatever it has) extension so it's just a generic document. Put that document in your TS3 user game folder. The game can't create a new folder with the same name of an object that's already in the folder and it can't store its junk in what is really a document rather than a folder, so after a while it just gives up. We've seen by watching Process Monitor tools that it still tries for a while when the game starts up and shuts down, but those failed attempts are less stressful on the system than actually allowing it to keep repopulating with useless items.
