I used this to turn my Setra sims3pack into a package, and I moved it to the mods/packages folder and I did not see Setra in my world's list

Does anybody know if there are certain files that crash the game if converted? I extracted clothing, makeup, sims and lots and my game won't start now. Anyone else having these problems?

Thank you for point out the case problem! I am a newbie at this and tried to merge a lot of information from different sources which got me to running dashboard, this program and S3PE with mono, but this program would not find any sims3pack files. I tried your fix by changing the extension name and it worked! Thanks!!

Hello Delphy,
Many thanks for sharing this with us all.
Seeing as you said that you hadn't tested it with Mono, Just letting you know that I have just tried to run this using Mono on a Macbook Pro Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and it does not work.
It will open fine and seems to work but when you click Extract it doesn't do anything.

Just so you know!
Hopefully someone will release some of these sorts of programs for Mac soon. Until then I will wait patiently. Haha
Have a great day!

Hi Delphy, this tool is great (potentially) and I'd love to use it. However I've just tried it out on my Imac Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and it although it allows me to select my folder containing sims3packs and my destination folder to extract to, when I press 'Extract', it does nothing except say 'No Sims3Packs were found in folder'. Will you be making any adjustments so that I can convert my millions (slight exaggeration...only slight tho, lol) of Sim3Packs into packages? I really hope so.
Thanks for all your hard work : )

I extracted a world, where do I place the package files? It's not showing up.

Originally Posted by LoofahFlufferduff
Just thought I'd make a mention, in case anyone else has run up against this.
(I'm running this on Mac OSX 10.6.2 under the latest Mono for Mac framework, no wine.)
I downloaded a bunch of files from 'Around the Sims 3' and was trying to extract them with this tool... and it wasn't working. A little bit of stuffing around, and I figured out that the files themselves were given the extension '.sims3pack' I changed the file name to '.Sims3Pack' and they extracted fine.
Gots to be careful with the case!!!

Thank you so much! It's working like a dream now! Yes, i have to rename my 75gb of cc, lol, but it'll be worth it once I merge them all on Sp3e. Thanks again : )

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This program is like a godsend when it comes to EA items! I find it especially useful for picking and choosing exactly which items I want from EA Store compilations... After all, just because I want 5 out of 10, shouldn't mean I'm stuck with another 5 items I don't want (that, combined with other unwanted compilation items, only bog down my game).

However, I've run into a problem and I'm not sure if its the original Sims3Pack, or something I did wrong with the extractor. In sorting through my 2k+ files the program extracted, there'll be an occasional item that the icon or thumb in S3PE doesn't do justice. I place it in my Packages folder (in which hundreds of mods and CC have worked in the past. I AM installing them correctly. ). I'll place it there all by itself, making it the only CC in my game, yet when I run the game to see what it looks like, I can't find it. Hair and clothes seem to work fine, it seems this problem is ONLY with EA build items... But not ALL EA build items.

Any tips? Should I be leaving EA content alone and do this only with user created items? Or is it potentially a problem with the Sims3Pack itself? I've scanned all problem files using your Sims3 Dashboard, and they never indicate any problems...

Do I have to install my Sims3Packs and then extract to package or will they show up if I download and extract but not install them as a S3Pack???

Hi,

I've used it with Windows 7 and the game crashes after I place the extracted package files. Capability issues?

What do u do with the sims3packs in the downloads folder after you converted them into packages? delete them? cause theyre dubble now in the game right and it makes it slower?

Oh and also, it works with sims3pack with only ONE package inside, how do u know?
I converted all my 100 sims3packs, and got over 1000 packages now, is it normal?

i love this tool, i use it all of the time for my sims3pack cc files i get online now. I was wondering though, i have a lot of sims3pack files from cc websites and the sims 3 store together in my downloads folder so i cant really tell them apart. My question is, is it okay to convert the content i got from the store (i.e. a world, clothes, hair) If anyone can get back to my question that would be very helpful

SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP! Where do you extract the .package? I extracted it to 3 diffrent places and it still won't work
It is extracted and everything but it just won't show up in the game.
+ does this work with worlds?

Last edited by AlmaMini : 9th Aug 2012 at 09:44 PM.

[QUOTE=FurDesign]What do u do with the sims3packs in the downloads folder after you converted them into packages? delete them? cause theyre dubble now in the game right and it makes it slower?
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What I like to do is create an "Extracting Folder" on my desktop to do the extracting so as not to confuse things. I do a batch at a time, put the newly extracted package files in the game, run the game and whiz through each category with the Custom Content sorted. I found that some stuff doesn't crash the game until it shows up in the catalog so just going into the game isn't enough. If everything is fine, and it usually is except for those pesky Patterns, I go back to my extracting folder and delete the .sims3packages files. The whole point is to extract them so you can get rid of them!

If you have a bunch of packages files, you can look into repacking them with S3PE to make fewer, larger packages. Just make sure everything is fine before you do it - you don't want to pack problems with the rest of the stuff!

I just wanted to say that long, long ago when I first started doing this, I was told I couldn't use it on Worlds, Sims, Lots or EA content. So I didn't. I see that people are doing it, however, but it seems many are having issues. My main reason for using packages is the ease of removing them - don't want them anymore, want to take them out to check new content, etc. I don't really need to remove Worlds or EA content and I don't have that many Sims or Lots that I can't figure out what goes and what stays. The only thorn is the pattern files...I have to go through them individually to see if they work or not. Is there any quick way to identify those that won't work as packages? Is there any way an end user can adjust them (like with s3pe) to make them work as package files?

Last edited by kslibra : 17th Sep 2012 at 03:04 AM.