Introduction

Removing Sims3Pack files from your computer is a simple task just it tin can become quite time consuming. If you desire to remove a lot of downloads information technology can happen that the launcher acts upward and y'all have to commencement over checking items and to observe one specific download tin become quite difficult.

Because of this, it pays to pay attending on WHAT yous are installing in the first identify. Especially houses and sims can contain a lot of other downloads.

Via Launcher Without Launcher Issues DCBackup & Downloads

The launcher has multiple tabs on the side. The two important ones here are Downloads and Installed Content. If y'all download something from the commutation or the Shop it only shows in Downloads.

To check if something is already installed or not, find the Plumbob/Arrow symbol under Status. Installed downloads besides bear witness grayed out. Downloads that are not installed, don't announced in your game and don't have to be uninstalled. If you downloaded a lot/household or a Sim there are leap to be other downloads to come up with that. Those don't show in downloads though.

In this example, I downloaded the housePension "Rose" und ihre Inhaberin Rose van der Falk and installed it. Equally you tin see only the firm shows in Downloads

In Installed Content you lot tin meet all files that came with the house. The firm likewise contains a Sim but that one is missing from the Launcher considering he belongs to the house. All cc that was used on the Sim (hither the hair) is now installed also. Installed content shows in the gild you have installed them. The newest ones are at the bottom (sometimes on top). If you shut and reopen the Launcher, this order is messed up and completely random and you tin can't sort.

To uninstall a certain download, y'all can now bank check the box nest to information technology and click on uninstall. The download should at present be gone from your game. To likewise get rid of the download itself become back to the downloads tab and click delete. If y'all merely delete the download, information technology will still bear witness in your game.

If you lot want to uninstall the custom content without using the launcher you can merely uninstall them all in one go.

The DCCache folder contains two types of files and a file called missingdeps.idx. I'one thousand non too sure what that file is for but it is recreated if yous delete it.

The first type of files has the extension dbc, the second i ebc. The ebc-files comprise the Shop content yous have in stalled, the dbc ones are third party content except houses and Sims. Worlds are installed in the folder InstalledWorld but most of the time they incorporate actress downlaods that are installed in the ebc- or dbc-files.

Procedure

  • Backup your game.
  • Motion the dbc and ebc files to a rubber location (if you only desire to get rid of third-political party content, only movement the dbc files) or delete them if you're sure that you won't exist using them anymore.
  • Start a new test game (a new 1, not an existing 1)
  • At present all files except those that come with a Sim direct.

Unfortunately the launcher is not very reliable and there are several bug.

The download is still in my game although I correctly uninstalled it.

Likewise delete your cache files and check on the icon ingame to run into if it's really a Sims3Pack y'all're looking for. Could be possible that the same download is installed through unlike ways.

Download with dependencies can't exist uninstalled

You'll get this message if the download came with a world. Y'all can't uninstall those unless you lot also uninstall the globe itself. Well-nigh of the items need to be uninstalled separately afterward removing the world.

Information technology could be that other items have dependencies but I don't know what that could be.

I tin't find a certain download in my Launcher

See thisHow to get rid of unwanted Custom Content

Those two folders contain backups of your files. Deleting them will practise zip in terms of showing up in the game. Downloads contains the Sims3Packs, DCBackup the Package-Files that were inside the Sims3Packs. If you delete a download in the tab Downloads, it will be removed from the downloads folder. The files in DCBackup are never deleted. This can pb to problems and can accept up a lot of disk space.

I would suggest, to move the files in downloads to external drive so that you have them handy if you need to reinstall. Retrieve upward some sort of sorting system that fits you. I would clean out the DCBackup folder entirely except for the file ccmerged.bundle which is needed for the premium content to work properly. Only disadvantage y'all take is that they won't go pack with any lots/households/Sims that you lot upload.

Another method to clean out the DCBackup binder would be to brand a listing of all numbers that vest to the download (they show in Custard). If you remove a download y'all can so manually delete the corresponding file from theDCBackup. This will be very time consuming though.

Further Reading

  • Sims3Packs to Packages
  • How do I install Custom Content/ Mods ?
  • How to keep a Sim but go rid of the CC it came with