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Post by lucasmoon on Nov 29, 2020 14:09:22 GMT -5
Hi guys,
I have a problem.
I decided to clear non-working content in mods folder using sims 4 studio. But I accidentally deleted a file with a lot of custom content. Is there really no way to recover this file? Definitely not? ((((
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Post by Cidira on Nov 29, 2020 16:01:17 GMT -5
If you've never made any backups that might include that file (since I assume that, if you had, you would know and would already have checked), and the file was not deleted in a way that sent it to the recycle bin (since checking the recycle bin is a super basic step in recovering deleted files that you should already have tried), then your best hope is probably the possibility that it was altered by an S4S batchfix at some point in the past -- if you keep the backups S4S makes when it runs batchfixes, then you'd have a unfixed backup of the file in one of those directories, and if you search for part of the filename from the top level of the directory that contains all the backups, you'll find it no matter which one it's in. (Then you can batchfix it again.)
Otherwise, you'll probably need to redownload the file.
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Post by lucasmoon on Nov 29, 2020 16:55:14 GMT -5
Thank You! If you don't mind, I'll probably turn to you for help.
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Post by lucasmoon on Nov 30, 2020 2:10:05 GMT -5
If you've never made any backups that might include that file (since I assume that, if you had, you would know and would already have checked), and the file was not deleted in a way that sent it to the recycle bin (since checking the recycle bin is a super basic step in recovering deleted files that you should already have tried), then your best hope is probably the possibility that it was altered by an S4S batchfix at some point in the past -- if you keep the backups S4S makes when it runs batchfixes, then you'd have a unfixed backup of the file in one of those directories, and if you search for part of the filename from the top level of the directory that contains all the backups, you'll find it no matter which one it's in. (Then you can batchfix it again.) Otherwise, you'll probably need to redownload the file. Hello! it's me again. Could you write me something like an instruction when there is time |
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Post by Cidira on Nov 30, 2020 8:03:34 GMT -5
An instruction for what?
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Post by lucasmoon on Nov 30, 2020 9:50:12 GMT -5
Maybe I'm a little stupid Where are these copies located? |
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Post by Cidira on Nov 30, 2020 20:12:33 GMT -5
You mean the backups created when you run batchfixes?
In your My Documents directory, you should have a folder called Sims4Studio. In that folder, you should have one called Batch Fixes. In THAT folder should be a folder for each S4S batch fix you've run, named after the date and time you ran it and which batchfix it was.
If you run a search on the entire batchfix directory for the name or part of the name of your deleted file (i.e. bigccarchive111.package is an example I made up of an entire filename, and *arch* or *111* are searches that would find that filename if you didn't remember it exactly), and you've ever run a batchfix that made a change to that file, then you'll find a backup of it, and can copy that backup into your mods directory to get the file back (and then run whatever the batchfix was again, because the backup is the UNFIXED file).
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Post by lucasmoon on Dec 1, 2020 5:17:42 GMT -5
You mean the backups created when you run batchfixes? In your My Documents directory, you should have a folder called Sims4Studio. In that folder, you should have one called Batch Fixes. In THAT folder should be a folder for each S4S batch fix you've run, named after the date and time you ran it and which batchfix it was. If you run a search on the entire batchfix directory for the name or part of the name of your deleted file (i.e. bigccarchive111.package is an example I made up of an entire filename, and *arch* or *111* are searches that would find that filename if you didn't remember it exactly), and you've ever run a batchfix that made a change to that file, then you'll find a backup of it, and can copy that backup into your mods directory to get the file back (and then run whatever the batchfix was again, because the backup is the UNFIXED file). Sadly, I don't have a Batch Fixes folder ... Okay, I'll rebuild the file. the fact is that there were a lot of hairstyles in this file. I have combined them into one file. decided to clean up the mods folder and went into the contents of this file. I saw that there is a hairstyle that does not work. I pressed the "delete" button, thinking that only the non-working hairstyle would be deleted, and the entire file with all its contents was deleted. Sad ((( but still, thank you very much for your help !!!!!! Good luck! |
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Post by Cidira on Dec 1, 2020 13:04:43 GMT -5
Yeah, if you have a merged package file and you use the same delete command that you would normally use to delete an individual package file, it will delete the entire file, not just a single item from that file. If you want to delete one item from a merged package, the best way is to un-merge, delete, and re-merge. When that's not possible (because some merged packages that weren't made with S4S, or were made before a certain date, can't just be un-merged easily like newer S4S-merged packages can) there are other methods.
A lot of CC that has stopped working (after being ok previously) can be fixed, but though many of the fixes are not difficult, knowing what fix is needed can be more complicated.
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Post by lucasmoon on Dec 2, 2020 5:01:34 GMT -5
Yeah, if you have a merged package file and you use the same delete command that you would normally use to delete an individual package file, it will delete the entire file, not just a single item from that file. If you want to delete one item from a merged package, the best way is to un-merge, delete, and re-merge. When that's not possible (because some merged packages that weren't made with S4S, or were made before a certain date, can't just be un-merged easily like newer S4S-merged packages can) there are other methods. A lot of CC that has stopped working (after being ok previously) can be fixed, but though many of the fixes are not difficult, knowing what fix is needed can be more complicated. Got it Well, okay, as sad as it is, I can't restore it. Good luck to you! Bye |
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