Cleanup your mod folder

[MuLoT.is@live.fr]

Very nice mod, thanks, I'll try it later !

[pinkmetalchick]

if works nice but for me it broke my game, first i needed to remove a file of a light package and then my game wont even start up without getting stuck 

[Snoopy911]

On 11/15/2020 at 3:33 PM, pinkmetalchick said:

if works nice but for me it broke my game, first i needed to remove a file of a light package and then my game wont even start up without getting stuck 

You should find removed files in \The Sims 4\DuplicateBackup in your documents folder to restore all cc in case your game really needs it to avoid getting stuck.

I'm not aware of any cc with dependencies on file formats except package and script files. I don't know if there is any mod which tries to access something different like a dll or exe.

Guess this would be rather dangerous for security reasons and i'm not sure if it's possible at all. The tool would move such files and it probably would result in a loading error.

Since you were writing you had to remove a file of a light package i could imagine the problem was rather related to some very old cc which is not supported by the game anymore.

I had several times problems with showers and also one time with light after updates. 

[SouthernGorilla]

Thanks for this. I'm eager to see what it does for the mess I have. 

 

You say you looked into reading the file contents, where can I read about that? I don't know any compiled languages, but I'd be curious to see if I could do something with powershell. I'm already looking into how to automate all the routine maintenance like cache clearing and it would be nice to also have a script for sorting this folder. I know powershell works great with xml, but I don't know if it can parse just anything. 

[Snoopy911]

On 12/12/2020 at 12:00 AM, SouthernGorilla said:

Thanks for this. I'm eager to see what it does for the mess I have. 

 

You say you looked into reading the file contents, where can I read about that? I don't know any compiled languages, but I'd be curious to see if I could do something with powershell. I'm already looking into how to automate all the routine maintenance like cache clearing and it would be nice to also have a script for sorting this folder. I know powershell works great with xml, but I don't know if it can parse just anything. 

Here are some links.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS4_CC_Basics

https://github.com/Kuree/Sims4Tools/wiki

 

Don't think powershell would work very well on this detail level or in other words for binary reading.

Since you are using powershell already, you could check out python which might do the job.

 

 

 

 

 

[Fr0Zen1]

Fantastic. It works again

Sadly without my FileStructure but I quickly noticed that it would get messy anyway ^^

 

I am sure it has been more fun to program this Tool than do this mind-numbing sorting, checking and deleting.

Thanks!

[DManschild]

Holy shit dude, this is fantastic!  Conflict Detector told me I had a ton of duplicates and I spent 10 minutes going through and searching for then deleting files one by one and I had barely made a dent so I gave up. 

 

I just ran this is and it removed 215 duplicates (mostly duplicate CC from downloading a bunch of custom sims). 

 

I just fired up my game and my game loaded faster, I got smoother frame rate, and less stuttering.  Having a few hundred duplicates was slowing my game down way more than I anticipated and I am grateful you created a program that saved me from having to find 215 duplicates individually.  Its a shame that it took me so long to find this file.  Good stuff

[Snoopy911]

About 200 duplicates

2 hours ago, DManschild said:

Holy shit dude, this is fantastic!  Conflict Detector told me I had a ton of duplicates and I spent 10 minutes going through and searching for then deleting files one by one and I had barely made a dent so I gave up. 

 

I just ran this is and it removed 215 duplicates (mostly duplicate CC from downloading a bunch of custom sims). 

 

I just fired up my game and my game loaded faster, I got smoother frame rate, and less stuttering.  Having a few hundred duplicates was slowing my game down way more than I anticipated and I am grateful you created a program that saved me from having to find 215 duplicates individually.  Its a shame that it took me so long to find this file.  Good stuff

 

Yes custom sims can be bad, well most of them are bad . Was kind of the original reason i started searching for a solution.

The tool offers a solution for duplicates, but there are still other problems,  which create strange effects for the game.

I try to be rather careful with custom sims removing scripts, defaults or sliders if can identify those objects.

 

 

 

 

[princessallie]

please let me know if you ever make a mac version

[Snoopy911]

12 hours ago, princessallie said:

please let me know if you ever make a mac version

 

If someone is interested in converting the tool i could provide the source code, but i won't

try it myself. Without a mac environment to test it, it would make no sense i think.

[bentlix]

My sims 4 mods are not located where they usually should be stored but they still show up in game so everything's fine with that. so when I located this tool in my mods folder and tried to start the process I got the notification, that I should copy this exe in my mods directory.

Is there a way that I can still use it without changing my mods location?

[BadxKarma]

I just use Sims 4 mod manager by gametimedev and S4TI to go through dupes etc.

Edited February 10, 2023 by BadxKarma

[Snoopy911]

3 hours ago, bentlix said:

My sims 4 mods are not located where they usually should be stored but they still show up in game so everything's fine with that. so when I located this tool in my mods folder and tried to start the process I got the notification, that I should copy this exe in my mods directory.

Is there a way that I can still use it without changing my mods location?

The check is there to avoid running it in a wrong folder and sort stuff which you don't want sorted.
It's checking if the parent folder is named 'Mods' thus if you rename the folder for a moment, you can run it and rename it back right afterwards.

If you like what the tool does you could create a symbolic link using MKLINK to provide an alternate name for the folder which should be able to fool the check permanently

or you could name your mods folder mods like everyone else :).

Edited February 10, 2023 by Snoopy911

[crashdodgers]

OK, so I am confused as to what the "restructuring" part of this mod actually does, as I ran it and all it seems to have done is create a new sub folder in my Sims 4 folder, it sort out 12,951 files into 473 folders and 12,974 single files and the math's does not add up, as I started out with 12,951 single files, but after sorting I have 12,974 single file and that is an increase of 23 files more then I started with, so clearly there is something wrong with this mod if it is increasing the number of single file after sorting?

[crashdodgers]

17 hours ago, crashdodgers said:

OK, so I am confused as to what the "restructuring" part of this mod actually does, as I ran it and all it seems to have done is create a new sub folder in my Sims 4 folder, it sort out 12,951 files into 473 folders and 12,974 single files and the math's does not add up, as I started out with 12,951 single files, but after sorting I have 12,974 single file and that is an increase of 23 files more then I started with, so clearly there is something wrong with this mod if it is increasing the number of single file after sorting?

So I checked out the files in the folder and found something not quite right, it would seem that for some strange reason this mod, managed to find and then copy/paste the files from 3 mods into this folder, just how it done that I have no idea, as they were not even in the Sims 4 folder. witch leaves the question why do I have to lots of the same file in one folder, i.e. I have all the single files but also I have 473 folders each containing copies of the single files, witch leaves the question what is the point of restructuring, if all it is going to do is copy files and place them in folders?

Edited May 29, 2024 by crashdodgers

[Snoopy911]

2 hours ago, crashdodgers said:

So I checked out the files in the folder and found something not quite right, it would seem that for some strange reason this mod, managed to find and then copy/paste the files from 3 mods into this folder, just how it done that I have no idea, as they were not even in the Sims 4 folder. witch leaves the question why do I have to lots of the same file in one folder, i.e. I have all the single files but also I have 473 folders each containing copies of the single files, witch leaves the question what is the point of restructuring, if all it is going to do is copy files and place them in folders?

It's in the description on the first page. Short explanation, the folder stucturce outside mods is a proposal and it tries to sort cc by name. Since most creators use a unique naming pattern, those files usually end up together, usually one folder per creator. If you think it's better than your original structure, copy your original somewhere else to have a backup and copy the proposal to your mods folder. It also should have an folder named unsorted and once the tool finds this folder it won't create a proposal anymore but try to sort out files from unsorted. Means put new files in unsorted and run the tool and if they fit a pattern for an existing folder it moves the file or also creates a new folder if it finds at least 3 files with the same name pattern in it,
 

 

Why use it at all?

I was serious about being lazy on the first page. Don't want to think about where did i put the other files.

Copy all the new stuff in unsorted and let's say i have a new file from the author shown in the screenshot below which fits the naming pattern it will be moved to a fitting folder when running restructure.

[Snoopy911]

20 hours ago, crashdodgers said:

OK, so I am confused as to what the "restructuring" part of this mod actually does, as I ran it and all it seems to have done is create a new sub folder in my Sims 4 folder, it sort out 12,951 files into 473 folders and 12,974 single files and the math's does not add up, as I started out with 12,951 single files, but after sorting I have 12,974 single file and that is an increase of 23 files more then I started with, so clearly there is something wrong with this mod if it is increasing the number of single file after sorting?

About your other question, that is rather strange. Shouldn't be more files, never saw that effect. Less files can happen if you don't do the the duplicate check first but more files, no.
I have some ideas about it, maybe you had some hidden files, or 12974 is not the numer of files but objects (files + folders). There are some authors which put rather strange characters in their filenames (blinking stuff for example, never saw it for sims4 with my files but think it was a bannerlord mod which caused issues when i wanted to delete it again) or characters in a language the system has issues dealing with. Maybe this leads to the tool duplicating some files due to issues interpreting the name.

[kocu87]

man the mod is still here! love this mod! it actually quite help me figuring out duplicates before! thanks man! 

[nymphetta]

Just wanted to drop a line to say THANK YOU! You are an absolute hero and ilusm. ❤️