Application has crashed message since installing freetime

[simpleprincess]

o.o *gasps* Ive installed lots from here ,modthesims 2 and sims 2 website into my downloads folder? Is that not good?
Could that be another reason why things are messing about?

Im about to go off and try a maxis sim on that cook challenge,ill be back in a minute...

[Tenshii~Akari]

Like I said up above, your lots in the bin will be fine.  They aren't installed into your Downloads folder, just into your Teleport and LotCatalog folders.  Any custom content/recolors/sims that have come with the lots, though, will be installed into your Downloads folder.  :angel:

(As for downloading lots from the official website... if you don't have Sims2Pack Clean Installer, you're doing some pretty risky stuff.  Never install lots from there without checking to see if they include rogue hacks of the sort, like ones with 32 numbers and letters as the file name with no specific catalog/type placement.  They could ruin your gameplay experience.  )

[simpleprincess]

*wails* I do have alot of stuff with numbers and letters? is it possible for me to copy and paste my downloads here so you can go through them with me?

[DarkAmaranth]

As cooky as it sounds, mine did that at first. so I did all of the reinstall, remove CC etc then added only 5 CC items at a time, loaded my favorite lot which was crashing, finally I got all of the CC back and no crash.

Maybe FT is just wacky about CC and wants it slowly? (shrug)

[simpleprincess]

Im starting to lose patience with it. I went to the desiderita neighbourhood,went in to the joque family,all maxis content and it crashed almost straight away now. :/

DarkA I might try what you suggested,but ive got so much I dont know what is what.

Can I copy and paste my downloads here so someone could go through it with me? *sniff*

"32 numbers and letters as the file name with no specific catalog/type placement"


The files with the letter and numbers ,I have a lot of those,here is 1 of loads what I will type here,see if anybody thinks they are bad.

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oaoc54boece6a5d6fc80f9f70a0b4e7b.package  802 kb package file  [ a date and a time next to it.

Theres tons more like the above in my downloads folder.

[Trepie22]

How many downloads do you have?

[simpleprincess]

Tons.Like alot.
Ive just moved the whole lot into a temp folder named "nattis downloads for freetime."

so now what ?

Ive just played freetime with no custom content and downloads and its working fine.

so ive ethier got something thats causing it to play up
or too many downloads for my computer to cope with.

[Trepie22]

Suggestions in other threads like this were:

Split downloads into halves, then add each half separately [so add one half then check if it stills works, then take it out and add the other and see if it still works]
Then keep splitting the problem half in two until you get to the problem file.

Another was to delete all 32 character files because they may be unwanted files [as mentioned earlier in this thread by Tenshii~Akari :S]

[simpleprincess]

Whats a character file?
was the file I typed in a character file??
*frets*
When I moved all the items it said 3733 items!!!*insert poppy eyes*

[Trepie22]

Sorry - when I said 32 character file, I just meant a file with a name 32 characters long :S like your 'oaoc54boece6a5d6fc80f9f70a0b4e7b.package'

[simpleprincess]

So it wont affect/ruin/mess up/delete my game to delete everything that has that in it then?

Theres rather alot of them with that in it. *gasp*

[Trepie22]

It's up to you, they might be files you want, but there's no way to tell when they're named like that and have no type allocated :S There's a chance that they might be files you didn't intentionally download, but there's also a chance it will be something you want.

It won't mess up your game, but if it's custom content that you want like hair etc, it won't be on your sims anymore.

[simpleprincess]

I suppose I should take the chance then. Ill be poohed if its a fav hairstyle that has disappeared or an outfit or object.

[Trepie22]

You could always post a WCIF after If you don't want to delete them you could just move them :S

[ancienthighway]

They are bad.  Don't even bother to type the names here and ask.  Just delete.