CC Extraction Help?

[Owlina]

Okay, so, I've been trying to download the "Veterinary Career" Mod for my game, but... I can't. I've gone through all of the CC Help Guides at least three times now, I've followed all of the steps correctly and still, it doesn't work. I've been referring to the "Installing Sims 3 Package Files" help guide and, so far, I've been able to make it up to step 5, which says to check the Packages folder. Both mods are in the folder (NoIntro.package and NoBuildSparkles.package) but neither of them have the .package at the end, and the directions say it is very important that it's there. I've triple checked every step and gone through all of the necessary guides but I still don't understand what is wrong. Plus, my Sims 3 is up to date, so that can't be the problem, right..?

Also, earlier, when I was just trying to download the Vet Career straight into the game, an error pop-up appeared saying that it cannot extract "so-and-so" file as archive... What does that mean? What's going on? I'm using the program 7-Zip for a 64-bit system by the way...

Please, your help is highly appreciated! Not only do I really want my Sims to be a vet, lol, but I want to be able to download lots of other cool mods and stuff that others have created. Thank you for your help!

~Owlina

[Ghost sdoj]

If the no intro and no build sparkles are both working, then you don't have your file extensions visible. This is important to help tell the difference between things like resource.cfg and resource.cfg.txt, as well as nointro.package and nointro.zip. It's not a game setting; it's a setting in WIndows.



(Shamelessly copied from the Downloading for Fracking Idiots article in the Wiki)

A file extension is the ending set of letters on the filename. Often this is 3 letters but in Sims 2 and other files you'll sometimes see longer file extensions. Examples of different file extensions include:
.package, .sims2pack, .zip, .rar, .gif, .jpeg, .jpg, .pdf, .txt, .doc, .bak, .exe

By default, Windows will not show you file extensions, but it can be helpful to have them viewable so you know exactly what type of file you have. Here is how you turn on file extensions:
A. When in a folder, click on the Tools menu.
B. Then click on Folder Options.
C. When the Folder Options window comes up, click on the View tab.
D. In the list of items under Advanced Settings, uncheck the box next to "Hide extensions for known file types"
E. Then click OK.
F. When the Folder Options window has closed, you'll be back in the folder. If you look at the end of your file's name, you'll see it has now has a .package ending. This is a Package file - .package is the file extension.
If you would like to have file extensions show every time you go into a folder (so you don't have to change this every time you want to see a file's extension), before you click OK in Folder Options (E, above), click the "Apply to All Folders" button.
_____________________________________________

Now that you can tell whether you are using a .package or an archive like a zip or rar, you can see if your browser automatically opened your downloaded career and extracted the package. If the file you were trying to extract is a package, just move it where it belongs. If it really is a zip or rar, and 7-zip is having trouble opening it, I'm not sure what is going on. I would try redownloading to be sure that the original download didn't get corrupted.