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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 27, 2007, 11:17:04 am
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As you found out, neither of these methods work. TS2 looks for Downloads, and all of the playable files within My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2. If My Documents is not on your external drive, and you don't have any downloads in the correct path on your internal drive, you'll never get any CC.
It's not clear if you've done that or not. Okay, I tried downloadeing CC to where I normally would if I didn't have the external drive (i.e. same place everybody else puts their downloads), and STILL nothing shows up  I've officially tried EVERY path I know of.:smt120 |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 24, 2007, 01:16:12 pm
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I have the Sims2 downloaded on the external hard drive but when I go to put Nightlife on it, there's an error and it won't let me. I know that I have to move my documents folder and program file but I think I'm getting some of this backward lol When I put the expansion on do I make a separate folder for it? Or do I put it in my original folder? Bleh this is driving me insane :smt120 When I downloaded mine to the external hard drive, I wasn't moving it from an internal hard drive. I started fresh with the external hard drive and just kept making new folders for each new EP. It would go like k:/The Sims 2... k:/University... k:/Nightlife...etc. Try that  |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 24, 2007, 11:29:24 am
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As you found out, neither of these methods work. TS2 looks for Downloads, and all of the playable files within My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2. If My Documents is not on your external drive, and you don't have any downloads in the correct path on your internal drive, you'll never get any CC.
It's not clear if you've done that or not. Okay, okay... now I believe I get what you're saying. The answer to your question is no, I have not tried putting the downloads on the internal hard drive... I'll try that and see what happens. Either way, I'll letcha know Thanks bunches!!! ~Fantasia1980 |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 23, 2007, 09:40:45 pm
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When you installed TS2 on the external drive, it set up that computer to look for the game on the external drive. On the computer in your room, it sounds like you've already installed TS2 so it is looking for the game on it's internal drive. You should be able to play it on either computer without any problem. If you still need to install TS2 on the computer in your room, there's another way to do it.
On the computer you used to install TS2 to the external drive:
Click Start, Run and type in regedit.
In the Registry Editor open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\. Right click on EA GAMES and select Export. Save the file to a disk you can put in your room's computer.
Then right click on Electronic Arts and select Export. Save it to disk too.
Take the disk and external drive to the computer in your room.
Change the drive letter of the external drive to the same as it is on the other computer, so both say the external drive is drive K: or whatever.
Now start the Registry Editor (Start, Run, regedit). Select the File menu, and Import. Navigate to the disk you copied the two .reg files on and import one of them, then repeat for the second one.
Now both computers will run TS2 from the external drive.
The last thing you need to do is move your My Documents location from the computer's internal drives to the external drive. MissLoaf already told you how to do that. ancienthighway: It's not the games I'm having problems with though... it's getting the downloads to show up in the games. hmfoust1s: What I did was when it asked what destination I would like to d/l my games to, I clicked on Advanced User, then Browse. Then I clicked on my Western Digital, which happens to be drive k: on my computer... created a new folder and named it whatever the game was that I was installing (i.e. Nightlife... Seasons, what have you). Then when it begins to download it will tell you it is going to add some MBage of space to your computer's hard drive... let it do that, that's what identifies the game as YOURS. The game should play once you have installed the Base game and any EPs/ mini EPs you have  hope that helps... if not, pm me and I'll try and figure out what went wrong. ~fantasia1980 |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 23, 2007, 10:18:25 am
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In the past, I've run completely from an external drive. Normally I'd play on my desktop, but when I was traveling, I'd toss the laptop and external drive in my bags and have it when in the hotel for the evening. Worked very well once I got the registry set up on both computers.
As MissLoaf says, you have to move your My Documents folder to the external drive in order to keep your downloads and game files there. You could even keep the program files on the internal drive and your game files on the external if you so desired. The thing is, though, that I never had the game on this particular computer's hard drive in the first place. The game, until now, has only been on my computer in my room. When I downloaded the game to play on THIS computer, I downloaded it straight to the EXTERNAL hard drive. I don't even remotely think there's enough room on this computer's internal hard drive to put all my Sims 2 games on, but I wanted to be able to download things easier AND have the option of playing in here or my room. Buuuuuuuuut I dunno if that's gonna work :smt120 . I hope that gives you guys a little bit better insight as to what I'm hoping to do here. Oh, and about creating that new path... that's what I tried to do when installing the games themselves... didn't work that way. The only way it would work was if I simply put it under drive k: . Dunno if that changes anything, but thanks for all your help guys ~fantasia1980 |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / How to install downloads onto an external hard drive?
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on: August 22, 2007, 09:48:27 am
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Hi everybody! I just bought a new external hard drive. It's a Western Digital... 320 GB w/firewire. I have managed to download all of my Sims 2 games on there, which, if it helps to know, I have ALL of. My question is what folder do I put my downloads in? I've tried k:/thesims2/downloads, and I've tried k:/downloads. I would've thought that first one woulda worked, but it doesn't :dontknow: By the way, the letter that the drive shows up under is drive k: (just in case ya thought that's where I normally put all my downloads). Anyway, I'd realllly appreciate any help I can get on this issue... my InSIMenator isn't showing up and I'm about to go insane  Thanks in advance! ~fantasia1980 |
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Resident Creators / EP1 Mods / EP1 required: Sleep on floor at home
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on: June 20, 2007, 09:25:00 pm
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This is so cool! I would especially use it for my children who want to camp undeer the stars. just a thought... someone should make a sleepingbag so you can just move it to wherever they hapen to sleep lol like someone has done with the toddler blanket... i forgot who... Then children can have their friends sleep over in a sleepingbag.. COOL! Yeah, I've heard of this toddler mat thing where toddlers can sleep on the floor. I'm not sure if it's the same one you're talking about... does anybody know where I can find that one? I decided to post here, as it applied to this topic. Mods, please let me know if you would prefer that I post in the "WCIF" section, and I will go there instead. Again though, if anyone can remember where they got this hack, I'd greatly appreciate it... hauling my toddlers all over the house to the nearest crib takes a LOT out of my adult sims Thanks all! EDIT: Nevermind... found it! here it is: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=1530815#post1530815 |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Sub-Download Folders?
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on: June 06, 2007, 01:47:47 pm
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Thank you all for your advice . Just to be sure we're on the same page though, I'm talking about the type of situation where, say, I create a sub-folder under downloads, and call it "hacks", another one called "custom hairs", another one called "furniture", and so forth. Is that the kind of thing everyone else is talking about as well? Again, thank you guys for offering your advice I do appreciate it. P.S.- Beosboxboy, you ROCK man... you just DO! |
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Sub-Download Folders?
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on: June 06, 2007, 07:13:21 am
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Hi all! I have a question about downloading things into my download folder, and the title of this thread basically says it all... Would it work if I created sub-download folders so that I could further specify what type of downloads things are? I find this would really help, as I do not have internet connection on the same computer where my game is installed. Sorry if this is common knowledge or whatever, but I couldn't remember if I'd read someplace about people creating such folders before or not.
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Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Problems with Garden Club Rep.
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on: March 04, 2007, 02:36:01 am
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Hey all I seem to be having problems getting inducted into the Garden Club. My problem is that when I call the "representative" up to come and evaluate my yard/ garden, she simply comes over and socializes with my sims. She goes fishing, swimming, plays catch... everything but what she's supposed to. I thought the problem might be a conflict with the InSim, but to my surprise once I uninstalled it, the problem still persisted.:cussing: It's pretty annoying since I was actually very anxious to see what the Garden Club was all about. Anybody else have this problem? :scratch: |
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Retired Creators / BodyShape Requests / Bigger Pregnancy Belly
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on: January 22, 2007, 08:44:12 am
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hahaha! its huge itself! does anyone notice, when its twins, its even slightly bigger?!!!
or maybe ts my eyes! lol Yeah, it seems that way to me too! Although, I did have 2 sims pregnant at the same time before (one with twins, and one with single) and their stomachs were the same size when I put them side by side. But it would be realllllllly cool to have an absolutely humongous belly when having (possibly 2) but definitely 3 or 4 babies!  |
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