Question About Neighborhood(s)

[EKozski]

I've got this one neighborhood that I've downloaded. I've played it forever. Now, my question is, can I yank the (neighborhood) folder out and start all over again with the same 'hood?

I've tried reusing it, but the game won't let me.

I should know the answer to this, but my brain keeps hitting a brick wall.

Thank you!

[SimGirl20]

What neighborhood is it? Do you mean take the neighborhood folder out in hopes of clearing all lots and hood deco, I'm not too sure you can do that. I think you would be able to bulldoze all lots and delete all deco though prior to taking out the neighborhood, if you wanted a clean slate as far as the terrain goes? I guess I didn't understand your problem lol..

[EKozski]

I have a Custom Neighborhood. I got it from MTS.

Now, since I can only use it once, I was wondering if I yanked the folder out of my Neighborhood folder, and replaced it with a fresh one (the same folder from the ZIP/RAR file) Would it be useable again?

It would be unpopulated and wouldn't have any houses on it. I know that. Just the deco objects.

[Engram]

That should work OK. If you yank out the old one and put in the new one but the game does not read it, first try deleting your cache files as it might still be expecting the old one to be there and deleting the cache files should refresh that. If that still doesn't work, take note of the folder number (eg. N004), then remove it to the desktop or another place where you know where it is. Then make new random hoods until you hit that number. Exit to desktop, delete the contents of the folder and replace them with the contents of your custom hood folder. That should hopefuly take care of the not reading problem. If the hood number is something ridiculous (eg. I use SimVille a lot and it's G999) so it would take you forever to get to the number or it would be impossible to get to the number (the game won't make folders starting tih Gxxx), use a mass renaming utility to rename the custom hood's folder and all files and then have the game only create dummy hoods up to that much lower number. As long as you rename the hood folder and all the files inside the game should be happy reading all the information - hence the mass renaming utility because it's a lot of work renaming the hundreds of files manually.

[EKozski]

Okie Dokie

Thank you!