So long time ago I made beautiful neighbourhood and I lost the game...Spent months on building on custom and terraformed by me terrain. I literally cried when all was gone but managed to retrieve some data from broken computer and now wanted to restart Sims2 with this particular hood. The problem is that there are some character files in subfolder of that neighbourhood (I just looked at it and 170files in Characters folder ) and I not even once played it and was just building it...till all was gone ugh... I got the terrain back which is awesome. Sitting in my terrain folder but now the hood Will go to any lengths to have it back in clean. How can I clean it? I think deleting characters files from folder isn't perhaps a good idea? Is there any way to do it? SimPe? How? Please, help me. ( I now installed all in my game to run it without townies)

Unless you use some form of clean/empty hood and stealth hood templates, new hoods will always have characters in the folders, somewhere between 150 and 300, depending which games you have. These are townies/NPCs. Doesn't matter if you haven't made a single character, because these are made when you load the hood the first time, during the splash/loading screens.

Most likely the neighborhood is fine. You can always test a copy of it to see if it runs alright.

You should not delete characters directly from the folder, that's a very bad idea and will corrupt the neighborhood.

I installed game on a new computer and installed all stealth hoods, disabled respawning with all the necessary mods as well. This old hood is from old computer that died. At that time I was just building not concerned much about townies. Now I'd love to place this hood in a newly installed game and I'd like to have it clean.

If so, it's probably best to extract the lots and hood template (or use the original template, that might be the easiest unless you made one yourself), and remake the hood.

If you didn't originally create it from the empty templates, there's no easy, safe way to remove all of those townies. If you want a clean hood, you'll have to package all the lots and create a new one from the empty templates.

It was diy template and then terraformed and things were built and placed according to that terrain shape That's why I'm just dying to keep it all together and just somehow clean it. It was never played, no occupied lots etc, no families made there etc. But I was opening it to build it so I guess that's why 170files in Characters folder

Not even SimPE can help? I don't mind spending weeks on cleaning it Just don't know how.

There's a hood replacer tool and some tutorials on how to extract lots without having to package them.

https://thesims2.livejournal.com/6049797.html (also works for lots without sims)
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=609188 (cleaning lots)

HoodReplace - https://modthesims.info/d/279992/ho...an-24-2010.html

Mootilda posted this one, which is probably the way to go: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=468987

Omg yesss...Seems Mootilda one can do it I want to hug yyoooouuuu