Organizing your CC

There are many ways to organize, what I find easiest for me is making folders in my mods folder, My mod folder looks like this,

Build
Buy
CAS
MCCC
Misc Mods
Temp folder
Temp folder CAS
Terrain

I then have subfolders in Build, Buy and CAS as these can be a few levels deep.

Build folder looks like this,
Doors
Fences, Gates, Stairs
Windows
Floors
Walls
Roofs, Foundations
Outdoor plants

My buy folder is pretty much the same, I make a folder for each room, one for decor, indoor plants and one for misc stuff

My CAS subfolders are
Accessories
M clothing
F Clothing
K Clothing (K is for kids as I have both children and toddler clothes in it)
Hair
Eyebrows_Beards_Eyelashes
Makeup_Nails
Shoes
Skins_Tattoos

MC Command Center is in MCCC and my other Mods go into my Misc Mods folder

I use my Temp folders for CC that is newly downloaded so I can check to see that everything is working with it before I move it into its "proper" folder.

Yes, I have loads of CC so I have found this way of organizing CC works for me.

You might wish to also download S4S, it is a big help if you wish to find CC that doesn't have its own thumbnail, delete CC you no longer want, delete color swatches you will never use, I just downloaded a lipstick with 100 color swatches, 50 were color and the other 50 was the same colors only with the mouth gap, which I don't like to use, so I deleted those and the other swatches I won't use, I got the lipstick down to 20 shades that I will actually use in my game, lastly you can use S4S to fix "stuff" that is in the wrong category eg. a party dress that is also in the bathing suit category. http://sims4studio.com/ S4S is free you only need to register to download it.

I hope this helps you somewhat with your CC.

My method isn't very detailed. I save thumbnails for each item with a matching name which makes it easy to sort. My CC collection is used as an archive to pull from so I don't have everything installed at once.

Modify - Mods
Defaults - Defaults
Creators - Multiple subfolders inside to organize by creator.
CAS - Miscellaneous bits from sites I only have one item from.
BuildBuy - Miscellaneous bits from sites I only have one item from.

If you're going to have levels of subfolders, you will need to edit the Resource CFG file.

I separate mine into different folders:
Mods
Hair
Eyes/skin
Build mode
Objects
Clothes
Poses
Accessories
Make-up/other

I don't download a lot of CC so this works best for me. The folders that seem to have the most are Hair, objects, clothes, and poses while the rest are either empty or only have a few things in them.

When I started downloading I didn't think to do this but now I probably couldn't, considering I have 1000000+ cc in my game... O.o

"Simasaurus09;c-16061549" wrote:


If you're going to have levels of subfolders, you will need to edit the Resource CFG file.

Actually, you can be 4 levels deep for regular CC and only 1 level deep for script mods before you need to edit your Resource CFG file.

When I first started downloading CC I was so serious and over-organized; I'd keep an excel document with every CC I downloaded, their thumbnail, download link, creator, etc. Needless to say, this took more time than actually playing the game and using the CC. Nowadays I use folders in the Mods folder. I create one for each creator I download content from, and within their folders, I have other folders for CAS (clothes, accessories, and so on), BUILD, complete set-folders if I download a whole set, etc.

I have in MODS:
Accessories
Makeup
Animation HUD
Poses
Clothes
Shoes
Hair
Furnitures
Kids
Skins
Walls&Floors

This keep it simple, something broke in my game some days ago, and didnt took much time to find it was one hair :)
I delete the folder one by one until I found out when I could log in the game again, and then I just searched from the folder the item what was broken ^^
I NEED to organize everything I do, I can not stand everything would be in one folder :D

I use TS4 Mod Manager, which I think I got from Nexus, but I can't remember. It makes it really easy to turn specific CC on and off. I used to have folders for basically every type just as others do. You can specify folders in the Mod Manager, too, which makes it easy to locate. However, for several months I turned all CC off and only just got back into using it.. and I haven't organized any of it. It's a bit overwhelming, but I think most creators make it obvious in the CC name what the CC actually is, so that helps.

> @Jagwithtude said:
> There are many ways to organize, what I find easiest for me is making folders in my mods folder, My mod folder looks like this,
>
> Build
> Buy
> CAS
> MCCC
> Misc Mods
> Temp folder
> Temp folder CAS
> Terrain
>
> I then have subfolders in Build, Buy and CAS as these can be a few levels deep.
>
> Build folder looks like this,
> Doors
> Fences, Gates, Stairs
> Windows
> Floors
> Walls
> Roofs, Foundations
> Outdoor plants
>
> My buy folder is pretty much the same, I make a folder for each room, one for decor, indoor plants and one for misc stuff
>


Hey! I'm curious to know, why one folder was named 'Buy'?

I'm so happy I came across this thread. I need to organize my cc collect before it gets out of hand.

Thanks for the helpful tips.