What is DCBackup folder?
I found this folder in C:\Documents and Settings\My documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3. The DCBackup folder is full of packages. The packages' name are mixed letters and numbers. And there's a DC...
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"igazor;c-16621616" wrote:"mickeysimmouse;c-16621583" wrote:
I don't mean to necro an old thread, but I have a concern. I am a creator, well a brand new one. I recently built a house and shared screenshots, and people really want me to upload it to be downloaded. The problem is, I've deleted everything in the DCBackup folder. I was completely unaware that you can't upload creations with CC if you do that until I found this thread. Is there any solution to this? Do I have to re-download every piece of CC in the build in order for it to work properly?
In that case, you would need to reinstall the relevant CC so that the DC Backup entries can be re-created. Whether that requires downloading them again depends on whether you have spare copies of the sims3pack files for that CC to install again.
If players do not have the CC you have used on their own, then the game will make somewhat random and not always pretty or appropriate substitutions wherever you have used the CC that players are lacking.
One more question. I've read that the files that appear in DCBackup after installing CC through the launcher are package files, and therefore can be moved to your mods folder like other package files. Is this true? And if it is, can I still upload creations and have the CC be installed by the downloader normally, or would they have to have the files in their package folders as well?
I really just want to get away from using the launcher for CC as much as possible, basically I only want to use it for store content. It's just so much easier to sort, keep track of, and remove custom content using the mods folder.
