For anyone that hasn't seen this thread on Corrupt and Hidden CC traveling thru the Exchange.

~This has been copied with Magician1's permission from his thread over on The Sims3 Forum. Thanks to Magician1 for posting this on The Sims3 Forum and to Gtlizyangel for the intructions on how to remove said CC.~


Hi folks


This is to bring your attention to a serious problem



that might have infected most, if not all peoples' Game that have been Using the Exchange since February 2010.



There was a Doll made by Rebecah, of TSR that had some 'corrupt/Infected' files attached to it. This attached itself to Sim3 Pack Files in your Game and of course you Uploaded to the Exchange Items/Lots/etc. with this attached, without knowing it.



Rebecah was made aware of this in Mid April and removed the Corrupt File and re uploaded the New Doll. Nothing was done to make us, on the TS3 Forum or EA/TS3, aware of this problem.



If we and EA/TS3 were made aware of this, back in April, when Rebecah was made aware of the Problem, the Following could have been Prevented! A Lot of Simmers Leaving, Spent money on Fixes, Un installed and Re Installed the Game a lot of times since then, etc.



NOW here is a Solution: Please take Note that this does not work on all Computers. There are a few computers it doesn't work on. BUT there is no risk involved in using this Program even if it is not going to work on your Computer. I know this, because it doesn't work on my Computer.



The Program is one of Delphy's from MTS and the [b]Tutorial was made by Glitzyangel from TS3 Creators Consortium to help us there, to get rid of this Problem.


I Quote from here on: Please Note where I unquote.
Custard tool by Delphy

It is very usefull program that you should use every time when you download something from exchange or from sim pages with custom content. It can check if sims3packs are broken, wrong downloaded, content some bad files inside.

Remember corrupted files can mess your game, make it slow or unplayable.

I love to download custom content to the sims 3 game and I can't imagine to not check every file that I am downloading with Custard or with Dashboard tool (to check mods also made by Delphy on mts). It is too big risk because many files are made wrong by creators also there is many bad files on exchange. The easiest way to avoid bad files is not to download custom content ;) but if you are an addict like me you need to learn how to protect your game from unwanted files.



First what you should do is to download this tool from modthesims:



http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=390235

(registration is required) follow the installation steps that Delphy wrote there.



It is test version and Delphy is still working on it. If you have any problems and questions about it write comment under link to this program on modthesims.





With this program I am checking if custom content (sims3packs) that I am downloading from sim sites are broken.



You need to open this program. It look like this:

This you should see when you check any sims3pack file. This file is not broken.
You should be interested in 2 columns. Type and Sub-Type

This file is bad downloaded. You can try download again. You can see red line and in Type column is description: Corrupt (Bad download)

This file is corrupted. Type: Corrupt (TXTC) You can try to fix it with option in FIX tab but it didn't work for me. Personally I am not putting corrupted items into the game:

You can also see name of the file and who made the file. This item is from BeeBabyRoom made by vitasims.

I advice you to remove any corrupted items from the game or if you didn't put it yet to not install it.





Now what to do if you downloaded something from exchange like sim or house and there are some items that you don't want to install into your game.

Lets see some sim from exchange. I have here example of sim with naked bottoms. If you don't want to see sims walking in your city naked the best way is to remove this content from sims3pack file. It's very common problem from exchange.



This is picture of the sim file. You can see thumbnail (pictures the same that you see on exchange) and under pictures are all custom content files that are included with this sim and naked bottoms or tops.

Here is another problem that you can get from exchange.

It is very creepy doll. It was originaly made by Rebecah from the sims resource. If you are having this doll (her 1 version) in your game (check in kids section in toys) she will attach to every your house, household, patterns, objects, clothes tattoos that you upload to exchange and other people will have it too and give to others. Just like virus.

For some people this doll will not make harm in game for others will do. I was this other example.

Here is the picture of the doll:

This doll is fine now on the sims resource, only first version was broken. But I have notice that this doll is attached to too many items on exchange. So check everything that you download to protect your game.



If you want sim or house without custom content or without some single item (like this naked bottom or doll) just untick on the right side everything that you don't want (1).

And then click File (2) and then "save".



I think that is everything what I can say about this tool. I hope you can find it usefull. It is very easy in use too.



Happy simming without broken and unwanted content :sunny:



Gtlizyangel

Unquote




Issues with Clothing is a different issue and I don't know who made those Items that is also Causing Issues and attaching it to things in your Game without you knowing it.



I Quote again:

I couldn't deleted some naked bottoms too by uninstalling from launcher. Because some locals were wear it (they were in use)

If this naked or broken are from sims3packs content you can remove it. Use this tutorial to clean launcher. (it will clean DCbackup and DCcache were they are)

http://armielsims.blogspot.com/2010/03/tutorial-launcher-content-cleanup.html

it helped to remove naked bottoms that I got from exchange

Unquote


I hope this is useful and that any

Simguru

reading this, let EA/TS3 know about this Issue. I believe a lot of Game, Crashes/Problems/Issues/Etc. will be solved with these Programs and the Fact that EA/TS3 is aware of this Issue.



Your Simmer Friend



Magician1



PS: This thread is not here to make War or cause Conflict! It is simply to help the Simmers with Corrupt unwanted CC, Game Crashes, Lag, etc. It might help a lot of us in the future as well.



I suggest you use the 'Save As' Option, when you want to Download from the Exchange from now on. Then Check the Downloaded Item for Corrupt CC, etc. before, Installing it to your Game.