Weird files showing up in downloads

[Ldyvamp]

The last couple of days I have been experiencing weird files popping up in my downloads folder. Mostly after I have deleted or overwritten files. I have alot of these types showing up, there is a long string of numbers and letters ending in _0001.package. These are not showing up in delphy's organizer or clean installer so I don't know if they are empty packages or not. Any suggestions? I always delete my groups and accessory caches each time I boot the game or after I have compressed downloads.

[Engram]

The files that are called a string of letters and numbers are just plain old normal custom content. When you don't use Clean Installer but the installer that came with the game to install Sims2Pack files that's what happens - the game renames the files contained inside the Sims2Pack to gibberish. Just check with Clean Installer that you don't have pink items (two copies of the same file) but otherwise they should be OK and are not harmful to your game, unless they're incompatible hacks or something. They're normal to find in anyone's Downloads folder. Just copy them all to a separate folder and scan only that folder using clean installer or the DDO - that should tell you what they actually are.

[ancienthighway]

Using Clean Installer, you can sort on Type, then look for those gibberish names (actually 32 characters of hexadecimal).  Those without the _0001 extension and with no type may be either meshes or rogue mods that were packaged with something you downloaded.  I generally delete them because the risk of an unknown mod is not worth the chance of having an outfit I wasn't expecting.

[Ldyvamp]

Thank you for the information! I am having a problem with the clean installer as well. I usually use it to install sim 2 pak files but for some reason it is not working. I have the current version installed but when I use it to open a sims 2 pak file the file doesn't show up in it. So, say I download a house. Clean installer should list all the custom content that is included in that lot and it doesn't it just installs the whole lot without giving me the option of putting in the files I want. I have read the manual about 10 times already and I don't understand why it's doing this. Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks