First you need to download Delphy’s Sims 3 Pack Multi-Extracter: here ya go~
Download yourself some sims3packs and put them all in their own folder. I organize my sims3packs by batches. Like, batch one is the first batch of them I downloaded, batch two is the second, etc.. But you can organize yours in whatever way makes the most sense to you!
Next, unzip the Delphy’s Multipack extractor to wherever you like (mine’s on my desktop) And double click the installer.
It’s really important that the only thing you have in the folder is sims3packs! Also, you need a place for your extracted files to go. I personally have a folder (also on my desktop) containing dupliacates and uncompiled copies of every piece of cc I keep in my game. That’s where I extract my files.
So now that you’ve got that squared away, let’s get back to the multipack uninstaller
For step one, click browse and navigate to where you have your sims3packs that you’ve downloaded and wish to extract.
For step two, click browse and navigate to where you wanted the extracted files to go.
When that’s all done, click extract. It shouldn’t take very long, it usually only takes me 2 seconds.
Now navigate to the folder where you extracted everything.
Now everything is extracted and in package format. Now there might be a way to go through each of those files and figure out what’s what, but I can’t be bothered to do all that because all I care about is if it’ll crash my game or not. So what I do is I run the extracted files through Delphy’s Dashboard (here ya go) to find any conflicts I might have. I usually don’t with extracted sims3packs, but you never know, and it’s easier to just delete it before it messes up your game.
And there ya go! You’ve got your extracted sims3packs! You’re free to compile or do as you wish with them!
A word of caution: Don’t use this method for houses or sims! I haven’t actually tried it, but everyone told me it’s not a good idea, so I’m gonna tell you the same thing.
Well, @lumysims I hope that helped! If you have anymore questions, don’t be afraid to ask!