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#1 Old 12th May 2021 at 6:41 AM

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Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage
Default My pleasantview is corrupted and I want to remove it and download a clean reset one but I have subhoods on it i'm attached to
Hi everybody, I looked around for questions about keeping subhoods while replacing/getting rid of the main hood and I couldn't really find much. Does anybody know if there's any way I can keep my pleasantview subhoods while replacing my current pleasantview with a different one? I have super collection for mac, by the way. I figured I might be able to just switch out the N001 .package file for a new clean one, but I don't know if that's just asking for trouble?
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Top Secret Researcher
#2 Old 12th May 2021 at 8:38 AM
Oh no, don't partially switch selected stuff from within a neighbourhood's folder, that doesn't work.

What is it you want to keep? If it's the map, the terrain, I believe that there are some tools to do that.

If it's like an entire subhood with its sims and their families, that's not possible. The main hood and its subhoods are just one neighbourhood, you cannot keep just a part of it.

You can only extract copies of individual sims that you will then be able to clone and recreate elsewhere.
Mad Poster
#3 Old 12th May 2021 at 2:37 PM Last edited by simmer22 : 12th May 2021 at 2:49 PM.
Never replace bits and pieces of a neighborhood. The data in a neighborhood - lots, sims, etc. is stored multiple places (memories and relationships in particular), so if you remove the files for the main 'hood all those files are going to become torn apart and corrupted. It's possible you won't notice it at first, but eventually you'll start seeing weird things, and eventually the neighborhood could collapse. Even if the main hood and subhood sims don't seem to have relationships, and however well you think you can control it, they may suddenly be friends at work or have met on a community lot, or anything of the sort.

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You can extract sims, houses and terrains (safely, without all the memory/relationship and other easily corruptible data) but it can be a lot of work, and you have to set it up again more or less from scratch for the new neighborhood/subhoods.

You do need SimPE and possibly Windows compatibility for most of this - not sure how easy that is on a Mac (not impossible, but could be a bit tricky, you may need one of the Windows emulators).

Sims:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_g...of_in-game_Sims

Houses:
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=609188 (extract and clean it, plus a few other tips)
https://thesims2.livejournal.com/6049797.html (a quicker way, but read the other one first, you may have to clean them after)

Hood:
https://modthesims.info/d/279992/ho...an-24-2010.html
(I'm not too familiar with this program as I don't use it, but I think it can be used to copy a neighborhood terrain and the decorations. You can search around for tutorials or guides, and there could be some tips in the comments)

If you don't want to use the tool, but know you used one of the original subhoods or terrains, or a custom terrain, you can use that one again. Take a bunch of pictures to get the houses and deco correct, and you should be good to go.
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#4 Old 12th May 2021 at 2:55 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Hood:
https://modthesims.info/d/279992/ho...an-24-2010.html
(I'm not too familiar with this program as I don't use it, but I think it can be used to copy a neighborhood terrain and the decorations. You can search around for tutorials or guides, and there could be some tips in the comments)
This is mootilda's tutorial for how to make a clean duplicate of a neighbourhood:
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=468987
Very easy, even I managed it!
And this tutorial can be used to make that hood into a subhood:
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=502306
Field Researcher
#5 Old 12th May 2021 at 3:59 PM
If you are able to get a copy of Parallels (or another Windows emulating software) to host SimPE then your process becomes much easier, I play on Super Collection as well and that is what I do.

Like the users said above, you can extract specific Sims that you like in to bodyshop but not them actually. That would result in much further corruption down the road.

Call me Seth!
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retired moderator
#6 Old 12th May 2021 at 8:41 PM
Oh gosh, I completely missed the Super Collection bit! Good call, @trambling101
Test Subject
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#7 Old 12th May 2021 at 10:47 PM
thank you for your help! i think i'm just gonna start the entire neighbourhood from scratch, it is what it is
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Never replace bits and pieces of a neighborhood. The data in a neighborhood - lots, sims, etc. is stored multiple places (memories and relationships in particular), so if you remove the files for the main 'hood all those files are going to become torn apart and corrupted. It's possible you won't notice it at first, but eventually you'll start seeing weird things, and eventually the neighborhood could collapse. Even if the main hood and subhood sims don't seem to have relationships, and however well you think you can control it, they may suddenly be friends at work or have met on a community lot, or anything of the sort.

---

You can extract sims, houses and terrains (safely, without all the memory/relationship and other easily corruptible data) but it can be a lot of work, and you have to set it up again more or less from scratch for the new neighborhood/subhoods.

You do need SimPE and possibly Windows compatibility for most of this - not sure how easy that is on a Mac (not impossible, but could be a bit tricky, you may need one of the Windows emulators).

Sims:
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_g...of_in-game_Sims

Houses:
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=609188 (extract and clean it, plus a few other tips)
https://thesims2.livejournal.com/6049797.html (a quicker way, but read the other one first, you may have to clean them after)

Hood:
https://modthesims.info/d/279992/ho...an-24-2010.html
(I'm not too familiar with this program as I don't use it, but I think it can be used to copy a neighborhood terrain and the decorations. You can search around for tutorials or guides, and there could be some tips in the comments)

If you don't want to use the tool, but know you used one of the original subhoods or terrains, or a custom terrain, you can use that one again. Take a bunch of pictures to get the houses and deco correct, and you should be good to go.
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