How to Merge Packages Using Sims 4 Studio

I'm new to S4S, so pardon my ignorance. When you merge files, I'm assuming you will have to manually remove the original files from the mods folder in order to prevent conflicts or duplicates? Or, is there some sort of dependency and the originals need to stay in the same location?

Hi jes2g, once you've merged the packages in your Mods folder, you should remove the unmerged versions of the packages from the Mods folder. The whole point of merging them is to not have all those separate files in there anymore.

As tigersimi53 said, after merging your .packages, it's a good idea to remove the unmerged versions of those packages to a save folder that is not inside your Mods folder. Retaining these packages will allow you to do things like remove a package and remerge the others in the case that you decide you no longer want one of the packages that you merged. Studio will update at some point with a version that allows the removal of a package from a merged .package, but it cannot do that yet. Right now, if you want to remove something from a merged .package you have to go back to the original group of .packages you merged, remove the one you don't want, and remerge the others.

i am trying to merge my cc and mods...but not sure how many packages can go into a merged file and if i can merged one merged package with another merged package..for example i have 2000 cc of build mode...if i were to make 4 merged packaged of 500 packages of each and then merge the 4 merged into one ... would i lose any content or should i just stick to the 4?

Like breebee23, I'm also wondering if it's safe to merge multiple already-merged cc collections/packages into a single, bigger file.

As an example, say I have 3 merged package files - one of them containing a bunch of CAS cc merged into it, another one containing Build cc, and the last one containing Buy cc/furniture (all of the the cc in those merged packages also being from different creators and different sites, if that's important) - and I want to merge those 3 already-merged packages together also, into 1 even bigger merged file. It probably is possible, but is it safe? Would everything those files contain, every single piece of cc in them, still work and/or show up in the game? Would the fact that it's different types of objects (CAS/clohes, build, buy/furniture) make a difference, have an impact on whether it would work in-game?

I hope anyone knowledgeable in this subject could elaborate. That would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

darkhorus

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I have another question. I wanted to create a thread for this, but I'm not quite sure where it would go, so I'll just ask here while I'm at it.

Since Sims 4 Studio ties into and reads the game files (both in Program Files where the game is installed, and in Documents where your user and save files for the game are located), does that mean that the program has any kind of performance impact on the game? Like, if you have Studio running alongside the game e. if you have Studio open while running/playing the game, does it impact the performance of the game, increase loading times, or anything like that?

Just asking to be sure.

I suspect you may have a package that is corrupt and Studio is not able to work with it. I suggest splitting your content up into batches before merging to see if you can hone in on which piece is causing the problem. Since it's stopping at 55%, take the first half and merge that. Then try merging half of the remaining content and so on.