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xiiMary
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3 months ago

Sims 4 CC - Game no longer launches from corrupted files

I recently had been redoing all my CC for the sims 4 and was able to play just fine, but then realized I needed to extract the .rar files in order to access the items. (I heard I needed to do this fo...
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luthienrising
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3 months ago

xiiMary​ Please read the "Installation" section of How to Use Mods and CC.  You can't leave *any* compressed files in - not rar, not zip etc. 

If you moved CC onto an external drive at some point, you might have corrupted files depending on the drive formatting. You can't uncorrupt them; you need to redownload them.

To do a strong test of your general installation setup, do this:

  1. Rename the Mods folder (I do something like "MODS OLD" so it's clearly different in a search)
  2. Delete the file called localthumbcache
  3. Start the game and exit
  4. Download a new CC item and install the .package file in the Mods folder
  5. Start the game again
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xiiMary
Rising Newcomer
2 months ago

Thanks for the quick response! I managed to get my game working thanks to your help, I had a lot less corrupt files than expected. It was mainly by the same creator or few, so it was easy removing them. 

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    luthienrising
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    2 months ago

    Thank you for the detail! It confirms my experience that people have been finding that this happens within specific folders.

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