Deleting an occupied house. Is it safe?

[Black_Barook!]

Hello Simmers!

As the title suggests I have two occupied houses in the lot bin. I wish to rid myself of those two families. Which is safer:

1. Deleting them from the lot bin.
2. Placing them in a generic hood, kill them and then bulldoze the lot.
3. Pretend they do not exist.

[haricots]

3. Pretend they do not exist...

GO away from any risk before it's too late!!!

[AlexandraSpears]

I just now saw a thread in MATY about that.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4306.0

[arathea]

If you are talking about the two families coming with Pets and you didn't put them in your neighborhood yet, it should be safe to delete them. If you moved the families to the bin yourself, it can be already too late for the 'hood they are coming from but deleting them shouldn't hurt other 'hoods.

[Julieryc]

NEVER delete characters unless you go through and follow the steps in the "how to delete characters" tutorial on MATY. (I think the thread is "Deleted 2: Electric Boogaloo!" or something like that. Deleting sims improperly = neighborhood corruption and eventual BFBVFS of DOOM.

If the sims are the premades from Pets or another EP/SP, you could install clean templates to prevent them from generating in any subsequent 'hoods, but that won't help you now. If they're Sims you made yourself/are in-game just in that 'hood, you still can't delete them. Clean templates will help you from getting Maxis-created sims in subsequent hoods, but won't do anything where they already exist.

[Mootilda]

Actually, occupied lots in the LOT bin are perfectly safe to delete. That's because all of the associated files are stored in the LotCatalog folder and are not in any way associated with a neighborhood.

Deleting occupied lots from a neighborhood is bad. Moving occupied lots from a neighborhood to the lot bin is bad. But, deleting occupied lots from the lot bin is completely safe.

[Julieryc]

Deleting occupied lots from a neighborhood is bad. Moving occupied lots from a neighborhood to the lot bin is bad. But, deleting occupied lots from the lot bin is completely safe.

Ah. That's what confused me - I use the clean templates so I never start with occupied lots in the lot bin, so the only way I would ever see an occupied lot in the lot bin is if I moved it there from the neighborhood.

[AlexandraSpears]

Since I had issues with my computer locking up when prepping Sims for deletion using the debugger, I did something else: exported the Sims I wanted with SimPE and loaded up empty neighborhoods, also found on MATY, and used SimPE/SimBlender to set relationships.

You know what, Mootilda...maybe that's why I could never find the Kims' or Tara Kat's character files in SimPE when they were still in the lots bin. What you said makes sense.