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Mattepojken's avatar
Mattepojken
2 years ago

Merged duplicates

I have a question regarding merged duplicates. I have downloaded a lot of different face details, skins, presets, hairs and makeup recently, which I have put in various sub-folders inside the main mods folder. In some cases, I accidentally downloaded the same file twice, so when I decided to finally copy/paste all the files into one folder - simply merge all my files together - the duplicates were overwritten as they were identical with one another.

Now to my question; so I haven't deleted any CCs, only overwritten the duplicates. When I go into one of my families, I get a "missing items" message, but... my sims doesn’t seem to be missing anything? Do they? Or is this message only due to the game trying to locate the overwritten CC file in a location (the now deleted sub-foulder) that no longer exists?

I apologize if this sounds unclear and confusing; english is not my native language. Thank you so much. Kind regards from Martin

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  • luthienrising's avatar
    luthienrising
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    There are sometimes "ghost" (false) missing build/buy item reports when you enter a lot, but I don't know of a specific cause and I haven't seen this as a recent bug.

    I would, though, strongly recommend not merging package files. You don't get any game performance improvement from doing that (I gather that it did improve performance in Sims 3; it doesn't in Sims 4). And you end up with duplicate identical files plus with both older and newer versions of mods, and that can cause you problems. It also makes it hard to find broken content when it's reported.

    Re. deleting mods, make sure to always delete the file called localthumbcache when you make any changes to the Mods folder.

    Instead of using merging to organize, keep your content organized by using folders. Mods that are simple a package file can go up to 5 folders deep in your Mods folder. You'll find a lot of suggested organization structures online.

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