I have never used SimPE before and am a bit intimidated by it. I have wanted to bin my hair for quite a while and have researched the different methods out there. Theo's plug-in seems to be the easiest, from what everyone is saying, so I decided to bite the bullet and try my hand at it.

I have a couple questions about the process.

How do I know which hair needs to be binned when using the tool and if I 'rebin' a hair that already has been binned, wouldn't that cause problems? Since the hair needs to be renamed after the binning, wouldn't that make two of the same hair in the game and if it's an already binned hair, will it mess up my game?

I tried opening Body Shop to sort my hair but it crashes immediately after opening, I can't figure out what's wrong with it nor can I find a "fix" anywhere. I went through all my custom hair in game, got rid of the ones I don't use/like and wrote down some of the names of the hair, but the names in game aren't the same as the filename when using the color binning tool.

Thanks

I'm posting this both here and on Theos thread on MATY.

All I can say is: I. Love. You. x.x I hated having a ridiculous number of normal-coloured hairs in the custom section...

This tool is heaven sent!! Many thanks for the making of this program!!

Thanks for this wonderful tool. I needed a little time about the language, but after I checked it, it was so easy and simple. Great work.

Theo, thank you so much...
At this moment I am still making some test on it, as you requested...
what I have seen until this point is that it will not allow you to make one package for all the colors.. but for individual files is fine.
Let you know what else I find...

I am working with:
Raonjena files.
The Sims 2 Seasons

Oh this is awesome, I love it so much, thank you for this tool.

I love you! If there's one thing that's bound to bore me to tears, it's binning hair, and this will make it sooo much easier. THANK YOU!!!

thank you for releasing it here. Now there should be no excuse for people not binning their hair.

Wow, That is like, too cool for words! I'm so happy and thankful you took the time to make this program for us. It's cool because now, maybe some of my downtownies or students will be seen using my custom hair! Thank you a million,Theo, you are a true genius! :D

There is just one thing I wanted to say. (Don't worry, I'm not mad. ) I just wanted to say that when I tried to open a hair package in "SavedSims", it took some time to load. I waited about 3 minutes. This could be one of my own problems, maybe I'm missing a plugin? Sorry, I was just wondering if maybe you can help me with that. I really appreciate everything you've done, Theo! :D

I'm a bit confused as to what this means. I just downloaded and it seems to be the same file as the one Theo released in November last year - the file date, size and revision number are all the same.

very very useful! thank you

Thanks....this is very nice!!! It´s awesome...

But I have one question...I didn´t undestand one thing....do I have do hair by hair...or its colour -colour...how do I know if the hair is binned or not?

in options what is the hair tone feature for?

does it work under SimPE 0.62, too?

Thank you, I will have to learn to handle it :P

WHYYYYY? Why is it doing this??? I get this error message and then, when I review the saved package file, all of the things that would normally be in their respective color-tabs are all bunched into one tab, doesn't seem to favor which, however. O.o?!

Message:
Cannot move file C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Administrator\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\XMSims\Sue_Hair001_0625_Black.package SimPE Version:
Default (0.60.2.20832).

Exception Stack:
System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()
at System.IO.File.Move(String sourceFileName, String destFileName)
at SimPe.Plugin.GeneticCategorizer.DisablePackage(GeneticColor key)

Source:
mscorlib

Execution Stack:
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()
at System.IO.File.Move(String sourceFileName, String destFileName)
at SimPe.Plugin.GeneticCategorizer.DisablePackage(GeneticColor key)

.NET Version:
2.0.50727.42

AH this is great thank you!

Hi! I've detected a small error (or maybe I've detected a small error in my brain and are now making a fool out of myself but oh well =P)

I spent a couple of days color binning all my downloaded Sim hair, but there was 2 or 3 files who simply wouldn't "obey", that I did the process with several times but it still only showed up in the custom bin. Why is that do you reckon? All of them was pretty old files, not newer creations, if that makes any difference.

Other than that I LOVE your tool, I hate having normal hair colours crowding in the custom bin. A while before I found this tool I actually considered deleting all the hairs in the custom bin that I didn't think fitted there, because I found myself less likely to use them when they were wrong-binned, and now I don't have to =D THANK YOU!

Thank you so much for this! Now I can move all those hairs out of custom that didn't belong! This will save me a lot of time. ^^

You are great thank you so much ....still have not find any mayor problem/ glitch...
Still I think it will be pretty cool if it we could add several files per color....

Does anyone know if there is an updated version of this? I just updated SimPE and now I cant find this Plugin in the Tools menu.

This version of the The Color Binning Tool does work with the latest version of SimPE, version 0.62. I also lost this plugin after installing the latest SimPE, but I just needed to reinstall the Tool.

Okay I'll reinstall this and see if it shows up again, thanks

[Edit: I reinstalled the Tool and still it doesn't show *Cries*]

Nevermind! I got it to work OK, there's absolutly nothing wrong with your download at all. It's just my computer, when I first start simpe, the very first thing I load just comes very slow, but it started to speed up after that. So, no stress, everything's working! :D

This is great, thanks a lot :D