#cc organizing

[rheallsim]

Been trying to come up with a new CC organizing system using the new skin detail categories. Here's what I have so far:

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So, yeah, still very much a WIP. Some things I've worked out, some things I haven't. I still have a lot of miscellaneous type things that I have no idea where to put.

Lots of organizing and category editing in S4S to do in my future. ^^;

How does this compare with your own organizing systems? (If you have any)

[pudding-parade]

It was an interesting weekend here. We got quite a bit of...snow. HAH! I mean, it’s not unusual for it to snow this time of year here, since the only truly snow-less month is July, but the amount we got over the weekend was very unusual for this time of year. (Yay climate change. 😒 ) It was enough to cover our solar panels, which means less electricity for us, since we’re off-grid. Which means less computer time because we’d rather have things like...oh...refrigerated food, which means no simming for me. But, it’s warmed up to about 60F/15C today, so the snow is gone again. And then it’ll be 40F/4C tomorrow but back to normal sunny, so...Welcome to summer high in the Rockies, yay. LOL

But, I’m back in action now. Sort of. My hair reorganizing/culling has grown into a general CC organizing project, mostly with an eye toward sharing the Runebu save. Right now, all my unmerged CC is scattered across a bunch of folders on an external hard drive, and I need to consolidate it all into one so that when/if I’m getting the Runebu shared version together, the cc-finding program will (hopefully!) work to find it all because otherwise? Well. But, since I’m consolidating I’m also fiddling/culling so that I can make new merged files and...Yeah, distraction. LOL

[kreativeplumbob]

Re-Categorizing CC Lists

I have 10,015 Files of CC...Oof... Talk about CC probs... 

I have been sorting all my CC and re-categorizing them manually for the past 2 months off and on (courtesy of this tutorial / method by @ktarsims of collocating). I am nearly finished.. Currently have sorted 7K MANUALLY putting them into categories that will make it easier for me in general in finding things. I’ve still got a lot more work to do as each package I open I have to determine where they go or if I even want to keep it to begin with. 

So I figured I’d share my Modified Categories Lists (OG credit @ktarsims) and an additional one for CAS Accessories because mine were a mess and all over the place. Find all lists below for anyone who wants them:

DOWNLOAD Function Categories

DOWNLOAD Room Categories

DOWNLOAD CAS Accessories Categories

[rascalsims]

I decided to organize my mods folders, but instead, I took all the cc from my current households and decided to keep them. But I’m deleting everything else because of how SLOW the rest of my game is and how many last exceptions I get. 

so I did this! But I am going to be going on a cc overhaul now so there might be a little bit less content 

[claudiasharon]

I decided to sort of start over with my Sims CC. I am going to remove a ton of it and only keep a little by certain artists. We will see how this goes. xD

[simmonim-toast]

If you have a mods folder, just full of loose CC, and in game you see things you don’t want, can’t find the things you do; and everything just a mess... This is the post for you!

This is just going to be a text tutorial, as pictures probably won’t do very much good as far as helping.

So the first step is going to be to make a new folder somewhere, and name it cc organize. Inside of THAT folder, create a bunch of new subfolders and just name them as numbers, it’s not important, it’s for place holding.

Back in your mods folder-- make your own gaggle of folders with categories for names. (appliances, indoor furniture, decor, etc) and then make one folder that is AAA-TESTING [you can use the letter prefixes to further organize your folders to create kind of a fake subfolder since you can’t actually have subfolders in a subfolder.] AAA-TESTING should be at the very top. 

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Grab a chunk of mods from one of the numbered folders, I don’t recommend placing more than 80 CC package files in at a time, because it gets overwhelming and you should take a break often.

Open the CC viewer in S4S, start going through the package files in AAA-Testing, you can add words to the title you might search for to find the item, properly tag so toys stop showing up with plants, delete swatches you don’t need, and delete whole packages you don’t want.

[If an item shows up invisible, don’t delete it just put it in a separate folder]

after you go through the first chunk of mods, go back through the list in file explorer, and cut and paste all those mods into the properly labeled folder.

Repeat this process until you have sorted all your CC and are left with the folder full of invisible CC. It’s probably just CAS stuff.

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If you don’t already have LIGHTSHOT I recommend downloading it, it is very handy screenshot tool you can make notes and correct size before even saving.

click MY PROJECTS in s4s and click on the first package, make the same judgements as before, but this time search for the item with google, and use lightshot to take a 104x148 screenshot of a photo that clearly shows what it is. Write a note in the thumbnail if you wish. Save the thumbnail in a new folder, and import into s4s as a custom thumbnail.

You can make a thumbnail for whatever you want, but it’s really only useful for skin details, tattoos and odd accessories. Clothes will usually have proper thumbnails.

[if the image is too large to fit into the 104x148 use ctrl [+] - to zoom out and in]

This is going to take a very long time depending on how much CC you have. However, it is very important to keep your CC organized for many reasons, the most important being that sometimes updates break your game and it’s difficult to track down the cause of the crash. By organizing this way, you can just remove folders until the folder with an issue fixes your game, and then from there you can easily target the broken mod. 

It took me about a week to organize 5GB of CC. But man am I glad I did.

I have 75 folders, and I used letters to create fake subfolders because my decor folder would be HUGE if it was just all general decor lol. Now when I download new CC it all goes into AAA-TESTING where I sort through it using the steps above.

Thank you @idontlikeyou96 for reminding me to do this! I hope it helps <3

[mswn]

If you’ve ever wanted to clean up your cc file names (remove those brackets grr!!), I found a really easy program to do it: Renamer

You set rules for what you want it to do: remove special characters, replace words, shorten names. Add your folders/files, and it even shows you a preview of the updated names so you can adjust your rules if you want. Then click rename, and boom. Done. Yes. 

:D  :D  :D

I *CANNOT WAIT* to comb through my DL folder with this.