How to use clean pak installer

BlogpostPublished: Sep 23, 2008Views: 162

My favorite cows needed some help with clean pak and maybe others do as well.

CleanPak Installer can be found at the web site Mod The Sims 2 (MTS2) for no cost. Once you've gotten it downloaded and installed you'll be ready to get started.

When you 1st bring it up there is a little gray bar with an arrow next to it, you'll want to click that arrow so the gray bar says "download" instead. This tells the program to search the entire folder......the more files the longer it'll take and so you may need to go bake some "chochy bikkies" or read a book if you're a download junkie. After it has come up with a number of files click "MD5" ONE TIME, this arranges the files by file# and so things with the same MD5# is most likely a copy. Anything pink is a copy or empty package meaning you're missing the mesh or some other essential part. Red files are global hacks. Just highlight any duplicate or empty files then delete(once you delete using cleanpak you can NOT undo & it does NOT go to recycle bin!).

Any more help needed or if anyone doesn't understand just let me know.

QG ∙ Sep 25, 2008

Hi again. thanx for SIMplifying it (haha, ugh, even i thought that one was lame)

your text made me check mine... and the most common ones i have are the pink ones, mostly recolors.. do they too have the same MD5? or are they really duplicates?

shadow66 ∙ Sep 23, 2008

'Cowhugs' to the Bear! $\:D$ - Thanks Hiedi! <3
Just a couple of questions - probably really dumb, but hey, it is nearly 3AM! $\:o$ What is "MD5"? Are there other options? When it rearranges the files numerically, does it do this keeping them within the sub-folders in the 'Downloads' folder? If so, does it cross-reference all of the sub-folders to see if there are any duplicates? I know for one item I've got the mesh, but the re-colours I downloaded for it don't show up in game - will it find these or just tell me I've got a dodgy mesh? Excuse the 'dumbness'! $\:P$