Game is accessing Downloads.bak

[fluttereyes]

I have a weird problem. I just started playing Sims 2 again and decided to do a good clear out of my downloads folder. I used clean installer as well as download organiser. Now for safety I renamed my original downloads folder Downloads.bak, I was under the impression the game wouldn't read that.

Now I have it all sorted I've tried to remove the downloads.bak folder and when I go into the game objects are replaced by stupid statues, etc. I have to put the downloads.bak folder back in to be able to see all my cc that I'm using.

Obviously the folder being read and cleaned out by clean installer and downloads organiser is the downloads one.

Why is the game reading the downloads.bak folder?

[whiterider]

Since NL, the game will read anything in the Documents/The Sims 2 folder (except when it's being difficult and whinging about Downloads folders not having capital Ds). I've not heard of it doing both at once, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Remove the downloads.bak folder, and follow Game Help:Getting Custom Content to Show Up for the Downloads folder. :)

[fluttereyes]

Thanks for getting back to me whiterider. It isn't even in the downloads folder, it's a seperate.bak folder. The only thing I can do is to copy everything from it to the proper downloads folder, move the .bak one and go through the whole cleanup process again. It's taken three days already, I'm well annoyed.

[Ghost sdoj]

You've already done the cleanup. Now you just need to get the game to read the folder that has been cleaned. If you are worried that it won't read the new Downloads folder even after the Downloads.bak is gone, why not move both folders out to someplace like the desktop, open BodyShop (Or HomeCrafter) to force it to make a new one, then copy the good stuff into the brand new folder?

Or you could experiment with moving Downloads.bak to the desktop (and maybe archiving it) so the only Downloads folder available is the one you want it reading.


If it works, you've saved 3 days of effort. If not, you've lost half an hour or so.

[fluttereyes]

I can't do that. Like I said it seems to be reading both folders at the same time. I know the folder I cleaned up didn't have everything in it as the game is reading the .bak folder. As many of the downloads are just numbers, even in clean installer, etc, then the only thing I can do is put the two folders back together and start again. I've already started to do it, I won't do the .bak thing again, but it has worked for me before.

I was able to save some time by deleting subfolders I know I don't want, thank goodness I have a reasonable sub folder system.

[Mootilda]

Why not just cut the Downloads.bak folder and move it outside of the Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder?

[fluttereyes]

Why not just cut the Downloads.bak folder and move it outside of the Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder?

That's what I did, but the cc didn't show up in game, it favoured the .bak file, that was the problem. Sorry if that wasn't clear in the original post. I put loads of stuff from the old folder into the downloads one, then removed downloads.bak and did a clean up again, this time it only took me a couple of hours as I remembered folders that had to go.

[Ghost sdoj]

So it read the folder it made, no matter where you put it or what extension you gave it. Even when you had it on the desktop and had another one for it to read in the spot where it was expecting to find one...

I hope you emptied the recycle bin, so it won't look in there!

(This game is weird. Some people have it refusing to acknowledge that there even is a Downloads folder, and now you have it refusing to acknowledge that the original Downloads folder has stopped existing. :) )

[fluttereyes]

It didn't do that, it wasn't accessing a folder on the desktop, once that was removed it couldn't see any of my downloads. It wouldn't read the Downloads folder at all, unless I had the .bak one in, that's why there was an issue. I couldn't continue in game to clean out hair I didn't want, etc (not all show images in clean installer). The reason I couldn't was because it wanted to read the .bak file and didn't read the normal Downloads one.

It basically wasn't acknowledging the Downloads folder and was looking for the .bak one for some reason.

Of course none of this matters now as I just did it all again and it's fine now.