This is amazing! I've been downloading some recolours from Michelle but I quickly got overwhelmed by the amount of files I ended up with. I was like: "there's no way I'm going to put all of this in my game, it's going to make it so slow!" and I almost gave up on the recolours. Thank you for this tutorial, I'm definitely going to try it!
brb merging and compressing my cc... Thanks Beth, this is really useful! And I hope everyone finds something they love as much as you love saying "naming conventions"! :)
Thank you Beth for all the instructions, information and patience! You are doing me a great favor in explaining all of this. I do not know how long it is going to take me but as I have to start from scratch I will just take it step by step. I have just gone on pension and would love to start playing Sims 2 again. Greetings from S A.
Greetings from other SA... South Australia hehe. Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you're finding it helpful! So happy to hear you're getting back into the Sims 2!
This is sooo useful! I'm at a point now where merging may be necessary... thanks to your discord mostly. 😜 Thank you so much for the guide! This whole series will definitely help new Sims 2 simmers everywhere!
Thank you for the great detailed tutorial, Beth! I knew I should merge maxis recolours in my Download folder at some point even though I was quite lazy about it. However, your video has become a good push for me to do it. You explained the process really well! 🙌🏻
It's so worth doing, merging recolours is completely 100% safe and cutting down on all those files (plus bonus, renaming them nicely) really does optimize the game 😊😊 glad you found it inspiring!!
I can't thank you enough for this video. My files already went down from ca. 5000 to 3000 and I'm not even finished yet. Thank you and have a great day! Greetings from Germany 🙏🏼😊
I'm loving these videos! I'm still in two minds about redoing my downloads properly due to crashing in CAS when I merged some CC and I could not locate the problem. I also have a tip people might find useful when you have multiple folders in a download. If you put an * in the search bar, it will bring up every file in every sub folder. Then you can sort by the packages and remove them all at once. It saves going through each folder one by one. I always ended up losing my place. 😂
Yeah that's really weird that you had the CAS issues 😥 like I said in this video though, in my experience merging at least your recolours (but keeping the meshes seperate) should be 100% safe
@@DoubleDash7 to be fair, I usually merge my clothing meshes in with the recolours lol 🙈 one day I'll have to redo my clothes with the meshes seperate - which should also cut down on duplicate meshes, which would be a good thing. I did it with hairs and saved sooo many duplicates!
This is such a handy series :) I got so burnt out when I had to do this with my 23gb of CC BUT it was so worth it. Are you going to be talking about load order or anything like that?
Hey, glad you think so! 😊 Haha I know, it was such a task redoing my downloads folder when I did this but yes, so worth it!! In my experience load order only really matters with mods/hacked content, which we haven't really covered in detail yet. I plan to do a video on troubleshooting when things go wrong (e.g. mods causing different bugs) so load order will probably come into that video 😊
Hi Beth! Thank you so much for all of the detailed info. BellaDovah and now your videos are staples when I clean up my downloads folder. I did want to ask - is it better to merge the files then compress? I’ve been compressing all of the files before doing a merge. I don’t think there’s a difference but I want to be as optimal as possible. Thank you again and love this series!!
Hi! I don't think there's much of a difference either way? - I could be wrong, but I tend to merge then compress 😊 That might just be my habit haha. In a future video we will go through testing CC in game before merging (today I just showed the process with recolours so we know what it is) - generally I will test, delete anything I don't want, merge, compress 😊
Learned a lot! Thank you. Only one problem: the Bulk Rename Utility. One way ore another, I can't select my Downloads folder inside the game. There is no option to go more levels below. Maybe it has to do with working on a Windows 11 laptop? On my pc with Windows 10 I had nog problems with the program (although it was a few years ago). I figured to make a folder on my desktop and do the renaming there. Any suggestions are more than welcome!
I'm plumping up my alien hood's CC folder and I'm getting ALL THE COLORS and this video is making me want to just merge them all instead of doing my usual picking and choosing. I did also get a wider design tool bar, hmm...
I don't tend to download a tonne of super colourful recolours for stuff like stoves haha, but after getting Anna's colours for that one stove in this video I was like.... HMMMM I like it! 🤣🙈
Hello everyone! I understand I shouldn't merge any MASTER files. Are meshes Masters? I have some cc from Michelle (Tiny Living), and some Meshes have Slaves. Do I merge the Meshes?
I recommend keeping master meshes separate yes, although sometimes you can merge them without any problem. Other meshes (i.e. slaves / repos/ standalone meshes) can generally be merged yes 👍
When I first learnt about merging CC. The biggest mistake I made ... was including the collection file. At the time I didn't really use the collection feature but now I've come to like and I regret my mering my collection files in with CC. My Collection folders in game now are MESSED UP! Big time ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Extremely helpful and pretty easy to follow, thanks so much for this tutorial!
This is amazing! I've been downloading some recolours from Michelle but I quickly got overwhelmed by the amount of files I ended up with. I was like: "there's no way I'm going to put all of this in my game, it's going to make it so slow!" and I almost gave up on the recolours. Thank you for this tutorial, I'm definitely going to try it!
brb merging and compressing my cc... Thanks Beth, this is really useful! And I hope everyone finds something they love as much as you love saying "naming conventions"! :)
Thank you Beth for all the instructions, information and patience! You are doing me a great favor in explaining all of this. I do not know how long it is going to take me but as I have to start from scratch I will just take it step by step. I have just gone on pension and would love to start playing Sims 2 again. Greetings from S A.
Greetings from other SA... South Australia hehe. Thank you for your comment, I'm glad you're finding it helpful! So happy to hear you're getting back into the Sims 2!
Thank you for these videos. They've been so helpful to me to get my downloads folder organized! And the steps are so easy to follow!
This is sooo useful! I'm at a point now where merging may be necessary... thanks to your discord mostly. 😜 Thank you so much for the guide! This whole series will definitely help new Sims 2 simmers everywhere!
Thank you for the great detailed tutorial, Beth! I knew I should merge maxis recolours in my Download folder at some point even though I was quite lazy about it. However, your video has become a good push for me to do it. You explained the process really well! 🙌🏻
It's so worth doing, merging recolours is completely 100% safe and cutting down on all those files (plus bonus, renaming them nicely) really does optimize the game 😊😊 glad you found it inspiring!!
I can't thank you enough for this video. My files already went down from ca. 5000 to 3000 and I'm not even finished yet. Thank you and have a great day! Greetings from Germany 🙏🏼😊
You're so welcome, glad you have found it helpful!
Thanks for all this inof, it's super usefull :) Very good idea to do one on collections files, really need to know how to create those files
I'm loving these videos! I'm still in two minds about redoing my downloads properly due to crashing in CAS when I merged some CC and I could not locate the problem.
I also have a tip people might find useful when you have multiple folders in a download. If you put an * in the search bar, it will bring up every file in every sub folder. Then you can sort by the packages and remove them all at once. It saves going through each folder one by one. I always ended up losing my place. 😂
Yeah that's really weird that you had the CAS issues 😥 like I said in this video though, in my experience merging at least your recolours (but keeping the meshes seperate) should be 100% safe
@@TeaAddict That was most likely the issue. I reckon I will do it one day. 😄
@@DoubleDash7 to be fair, I usually merge my clothing meshes in with the recolours lol 🙈 one day I'll have to redo my clothes with the meshes seperate - which should also cut down on duplicate meshes, which would be a good thing. I did it with hairs and saved sooo many duplicates!
@@TeaAddict Nice! It's also a big job, but I know it will be worth it.
This is such a handy series :) I got so burnt out when I had to do this with my 23gb of CC BUT it was so worth it.
Are you going to be talking about load order or anything like that?
Hey, glad you think so! 😊 Haha I know, it was such a task redoing my downloads folder when I did this but yes, so worth it!!
In my experience load order only really matters with mods/hacked content, which we haven't really covered in detail yet. I plan to do a video on troubleshooting when things go wrong (e.g. mods causing different bugs) so load order will probably come into that video 😊
@@TeaAddict Awesome, really looking forward to that! :)
Hi Beth! Thank you so much for all of the detailed info. BellaDovah and now your videos are staples when I clean up my downloads folder.
I did want to ask - is it better to merge the files then compress? I’ve been compressing all of the files before doing a merge. I don’t think there’s a difference but I want to be as optimal as possible.
Thank you again and love this series!!
Hi! I don't think there's much of a difference either way? - I could be wrong, but I tend to merge then compress 😊 That might just be my habit haha. In a future video we will go through testing CC in game before merging (today I just showed the process with recolours so we know what it is) - generally I will test, delete anything I don't want, merge, compress 😊
Thanks, I knew a little but this has expanded my knowledge :)
I'm glad to hear it! I know a lot of this is kind of basic for a lot of people but I'm hoping it will still be helpful x
Learned a lot! Thank you.
Only one problem: the Bulk Rename Utility. One way ore another, I can't select my Downloads folder inside the game. There is no option to go more levels below. Maybe it has to do with working on a Windows 11 laptop? On my pc with Windows 10 I had nog problems with the program (although it was a few years ago). I figured to make a folder on my desktop and do the renaming there. Any suggestions are more than welcome!
This was so helpful!!!! ❤
I'm plumping up my alien hood's CC folder and I'm getting ALL THE COLORS and this video is making me want to just merge them all instead of doing my usual picking and choosing. I did also get a wider design tool bar, hmm...
I don't tend to download a tonne of super colourful recolours for stuff like stoves haha, but after getting Anna's colours for that one stove in this video I was like.... HMMMM I like it! 🤣🙈
love this! thank u
How to use Bulk Rename Utility and make it rename everything in that folder including what is inside the subfolder?
Hello everyone! I understand I shouldn't merge any MASTER files. Are meshes Masters?
I have some cc from Michelle (Tiny Living), and some Meshes have Slaves. Do I merge the Meshes?
I recommend keeping master meshes separate yes, although sometimes you can merge them without any problem. Other meshes (i.e. slaves / repos/ standalone meshes) can generally be merged yes 👍
Thanks, it is a great video. But how to unmerge them?
Hey, with Sims 2 there's no way to "un-merge" something other than to just re-download it 😊
@@TeaAddict thanks
Ah so it wasn't just me who made the mistake of merging my collections...
Haha nope, definitely done that 🙈
When I first learnt about merging CC. The biggest mistake I made ... was including the collection file. At the time I didn't really use the collection feature but now I've come to like and I regret my mering my collection files in with CC. My Collection folders in game now are MESSED UP! Big time ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@zombified_lj hahaha oh yes I have made this mistake 🙈🙈