Is it safe to Delete?

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XPTL297:
If I'm not totally right, someone please correct me, but the only files that TS2 can read are .package and if you identified it in Windows (like you do automatically when you install Simpe), the extension won't even appear visibly. Anything that doesn't have the extension .package, is only stuffing your downloads (pics that are supplied inside the compressed .rar or .zip; readme files and others). The other good measure is to use the compressorizer to compress the files inside the downloads folder. Besides reducing enormously the size, it also updates all compressed files to the date of compression. It will be helpful when you install something else after compression that causes a problem. It is very easy to find it again when searching by date. Remember to compress only when you are not having any trouble. It is not necessary to install sims directly in the downloads folder if you are not very sure of what they contain. The clean installer gives you the option to install the files wherever you want, even in a separated drive. If you get files with very strange and unlogical names, open it in Simpe first and try to see what it is. If it is a special custom content that is very doubtful, prefer to go to the site page that contains this cc and read again what it is doing specifically. Do not include things in your downloads folder that you have no clue of what is it for crap.

Theraven:
.package files will mainly be unreadable to all programs except SimPE, other .package editors/readers, and the game itself. If you have SimPE installed, the computer will usually recognize the files as .package files, and associates them with SimPE, giving them the proper icon.

.package.package.package.package.package files usually happens when installing a lot or a sim with items that already has been installed a few times. It's a bug with the Clean Installer that was fixed in the newest version (1.6).
They usually show up in the game, but might or might not be buggy.

My computer skips all extensions in file names, so whenever I find .package.package.package files, I just delete all the extensions, and the main one will be left. If your computer shows extensions, just delete all except one line (.package).

It's mostly safe to change filenames, as very few CC-files needs the original filename. As long as you don't delete the main extension, it's no danger. I do it all the time, especially on my own files, and my computer can still read them.

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