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Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: tarius16 on June 19, 2007, 11:35:39 am Hey everyone,
*Not sure if this is the right place for this, so if it's not please be kind ^__^ Ok.... I was just wondering what do you guys use to install your downloads? Do you use file maid... or do you open each file one by one and extract them all by hand? Jillian Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: caffeinated.joy on June 19, 2007, 11:42:46 pm I personally extract mine by hand usually,because I like to keep my downloads organized into subfolders as miuch as I can, unless it's a sims2pack, then I use clean installer.
Are you having troubles? Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: trl on June 20, 2007, 02:36:16 am I do mine by hand too using WinRAR. I don't use subfolders though, I like chaos. LOL
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: BeosBoxBoy on June 20, 2007, 02:53:38 am I ALWAYS say if you want it done right, do it yourself. I have never had reliable performance from any of the automated installers. I use WinRAR and manually extract the files, then manually move them to the Downloads forlder.
I have had varied results from using sub-folders, even EA/Maxis will tell you to move all your downloaded files into the main Downloads directory if you contact tech support, so that is good enough for me: sub-folders, don't need 'em, don't want 'em. Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: tylersada on June 20, 2007, 07:49:48 am Subfolders are nice for organization but I have found I tend to get duplicates if I have already downloaded something and did not remember doing so. Keeping them all in one folder helps prevent this from happening.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: DarkDude28 on June 20, 2007, 12:11:38 pm I don't use sub folders either. I extract mine by hand that way I know they get to the right place. You will want to use WinRAR or a Zip file of some kind. Either work great. I think WinRAR is the better of the two.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: Scouty on June 20, 2007, 01:23:12 pm I extract mine by hand also. And I use large amounts of subfolders.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: tarius16 on June 20, 2007, 03:21:40 pm Where can I find WinRAR, and is it something you have to pay for it?
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: trl on June 20, 2007, 05:16:14 pm You can find WinRAR here (http://www.rarlabs.com/). You can try it out for 30 days for free. After that it will prompt that you need to purchase a license for it.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: BeosBoxBoy on June 20, 2007, 06:06:44 pm however WinRAR does continue to work even after the free trial has expired, the "please buy" pop-up can be closed and you can get on with your work.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: trl on June 21, 2007, 02:30:22 am LOL BBB, I wasn't sure if it was ok to say that on the forum so I had pm'd her that info. heehee
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: tarius16 on June 21, 2007, 11:40:33 am What about the one that modthesims 2 have, I for got the name of it right now, but would that one be a good one to use? I only ask because I have to re-download all my custom contents and well..... I have a lot, doing it all by hand is going to be such a pain, that's why I was wondering if any one knew of a good installer.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: Dinki on June 21, 2007, 03:35:49 pm Quote from: tylersada;783987 Subfolders are nice for organization but I have found I tend to get duplicates if I have already downloaded something and did not remember doing so. Keeping them all in one folder helps prevent this from happening. If you open the main Downloads folder (if it has subfolders in) with clean installer, it will show all the duplicate and empty files, no matter if they are in different subfolders or sub-sub folders. Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: FallenAngel86 on June 21, 2007, 06:43:57 pm i do by hand as well
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: trl on June 21, 2007, 07:59:49 pm tarius16, I don't use Q-Express so I can't answer that, sorry hun. I also am unaware if it can be used on sites other than MTS2.
Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: ancienthighway on June 21, 2007, 08:34:32 pm By default, Q-Express can only be used on MTS2, but there is a way described in it's docs to use files from other sites with it.
I used it for a while, but as it puts the compressed files in it's own folders, and I like to keep the compressed files around and organized my way, I stopped using it. One of the nice things about WinRar is the ability to open up Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder you download to, then select all the compressed files you want, right click and Extract to.... You don't have to install each one individually. Title: What do you use to put your downloads in your game? Post by: xXScReAmOKiDXx on June 21, 2007, 08:42:41 pm I, personally, use AlZIP which is free
and its pretty easy to use, but lol it seems i am the only one who uses it |