I have "Arezzo's Bathroom counter" in my game, and I heard that's bad CC, I don't even know how it got in my game, I want it gone, but its not on my launcher.Is there any way I can be rid of it, I looked on Crincit's list of bad CC and its not there.
I also used Delphy's Dashboard; but it doesn't tell me what the package files are; I have a few Corrupted in there; but I don't want to delete anything but the counter.
I'm not sure what package file is the counter because It must have came with a lot I downloaded as I haven't installed any CC furniture.
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IMHO it acts just like that doll.
I have no idea what the (.package) files number is or where it's in DCBackup.
Sorry.
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Yet it doesn't show up on a lot that I purposely placed it on to scan. Its like its there; but not there.
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Its odd, I just reuploaded with the counter placed on the lot and scanned with CC and it did not show up; so its like its there but not there.
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Go into the Documents folder and go into the electric Arts folder, [b/] DELETE the Sims 3 subfolder completely, restart the computer and open the game via the launcher.
I did that when My game got funky, works like a charm.
That means I lose all my saved games.And I just spent 4 weeks populating a world for my story.
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If you cannot find it in the installed content of your launcher it is because you have a whole lot of store content and cc installed via sims3packs. The launcher doesn't do a good job of showing everything when you have a lot of stuff. The fact that you found the package in DCBackup means that it IS in one of the files in DCCache.
It's easy enough though to widdle it down so that the launcher should show it. What you want to do is:
1. Make a copy of everything in the DCCache folder to a backup directory.
2. Then delete every file ending in .ebc from the DCCache folder. That is all of your store content. Don't freak out, you made a backup in step #1.
3. At this point the files in DCCache will be the ones ending in .dbc, this is your CC.
4. If you only have one or two files ending in .dbc go to step 6.
5. If you have many .dbc files delete all of them except dcdb0.dbc
6. Start the launcher and look for the bad CC.
7. If you find it, uninstall it. And go to step 10 below
8. If you don't find it, delete Dcdb0.dbc from the DCCache folder and copy dcdb1.dbc from your backup folder and rename it to dcdb0 (once it is copied into DCCache). If you have already done dcdb1.dbc, do it with dcdb2, etc. etc. until you find the bad content. Always copying (keeping the original in the backup, unchanged).
9. Return to step 6 above.
10. If you had to rename any file in step 8, change it's name BACK to what it was originally. Then copy it back into your backup folder, overwriting the original. You are doing this because you want the backup folder have the file with the bad cc removed.
11. Now copy everything from backup folder to the DCCache folder.
12. Congratulate yourself on removing the bad CC.
That's all there is to it. Looks more complicated than it is.
Alternatively, seeing as you have the package information, you could try looking for it and removing it in the .dbc files with s3pe. S3PE can open that type of file.
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This counter wont come back with my other dbcs will it?
However I lost all my CC and now my town I spent 4 weeks populating is not my theme anymore.:/
Edit: nevermind.XD
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Glad it worked for you. And that you figured out which step you forgot and got your town back.
I have had to do the process a few times to get rid of CC, my launcher long ago stopped showing all of my installed CC unless I went through this process because I have 11 files of store content and 3 of CC in DCCache. That is just more than the launcher can handle showing at once I guess.
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some people should double check their creations b4 sharing them and it wouldn't happen, I am not talking about those who have ended up finding it in their game and accidently sharing it but those who have create these Bad CC in the first place
I don't normally download of the exchange but decided to download a friends Sim and have got stuck with it
what I did to fix it was renamed my Sims folder and started a fresh game installed the Sims that I thought was infected, and then I deleted that save and went back to my original Sims folder re named it back
delete my DCBackup & DCCache and The Sims that the files attached to and re installed my store stuff no more Bad CC in my game
Edit to add the link to the original offender ~ http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Angela/blog/view-post/post/24326/Replace Arezzo Bathroom Counter
Custard tool free http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=390235
CC Magic : http://nene.modthesims.info/download.php?t=461888
And the horrible corrupted counter as it is. If its in your launcher. NUKE IT!
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You dont have to reinstall all your games...just the store content and 3rd party content you might use...
simply MOVE your dccache folder and the DCbackup folder to a safe place on your computer(just incase).....
now reinstall your downloads....start game..of all goes well....those other folders that you moved you can now delete...
So I did all of this, cause I had those dreaded boots, and checked all the .dbc files and nothing... I could not find it any where... Any ideas on that else I could try?
Those "dreaded boots" were in my game too. I discovered that they were attached to a Sim that I had saved to my Sim Bin. Once I cleaned out my Sim Bin, they were gone. Something to consider doing. Good luck!
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ETA: I went through the list of what to do to get rid of the counter -- luckily (?) I only had one .dbc file to deal with. But when I went to the launcher to uninstall the counter, the dreaded "debug" message popped up every time I went into my Installed Content. So I risked it and just deleted the .dbc file directly from the folder.
So far, so good.
Thanks!
I checked the Launcher to see if that globawful counter was not of the list and it was so I copied the original backup of Dcdb0 (which was also the same original name as the fresh one which was sorta odd so I didn't rename it) and the counter wasn't there yet again. So I took supea's advice and risked it all and nixed the Dcdb0 file.
Before I followed the removal process I managed to nix the package file of the counter found on DCBackup. For future reference, the full name can be found from NiniBeMe69's blog post.
For any Simmer(s) who is or are having laggy Internet, I'm posting the package file here for your convenience so that you won't have to wait a long time for the page to load. Super thanks again to NiniBeMe69: 0xee20737c7dc80e00dec6ef0b2c262a36.package
I also deleted the package file of the lot through sorting the files to Date Modified in Descending order. Before I nicked the package files I nixed the Sims3Pack of a CC-free lot that I DLd that stucked the counter onto. Plus the package files on the Library folder after nixing the said files on DCCache. I tried checking if the lot and/or the counter still appear in the list after I took out the Sims3Pack file and they weren't there anymore but I decided to take an extra measure and nicked the files on DCBackup before going through the DCCache.
Right now I'm re-installing my Store Sims3Packs and a few third-party CC hair retextures and makeup which were supposed to be installed first (they're clean by the way). I'll update this post for any news. Fingers crossed hope everything goes back to normal.
Good thing I haven't started any of the Saves me and my sister have and found the counter right after installation otherwise I'm seriously not gonna get some good night's sleep due to a llama-ton of worries concerning that bad CC whirl-pooling in my head.
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