plathsims

right so I'm still haunted by my own cc so if anyone's looking, all my old stuff is posted under honeycuts/hagsims/whatever else can be found on my own cc folder:

honeycuts/hagsims ts4cc

I can assure you this folder is going nowhere bc I've long since forgotten my password. however, a couple of notes:

most of my cc are recolours and you'll need the meshes for them which are rarely ever included. I strongly recommend googling the file name to hunt down reblogs

for previews too, google the file name to find reblogs bc I don't think I've ever included previews in the files, for which I can only apologise

you can also find some of the stuff on losts4cc with previews & mesh links

if all else fails, you can send me an ask and I can try to remember what's up with individual pieces (what meshes, packs, etc. are required) but I no longer have access to any of these files or ts4 for that matter, so I can't promise shit & you're at the mercy of me remembering to log in to Tumblr every once in a while

ok. I know there's about 7 of us playing the Super Collection on Mac, however! I know all 7 of us are desperate.

what issue are we solving?

so, there's no Mac version of CleanInstaller. there is the Sims2Pack Installer that comes with the Super Collection, and technically, you can install lots with that, but a) it doesn't flag questionable files, and b) it renames every package file to a random string of characters such as ed971e8cfa82a63f713a6b3b5fb812dd_0001.package.

if this is no bother, great, go ahead with Sims2Pack Installer!! worked fine for me, too, until the precise moment I wanted to cull some build/buy CC...

anyway. so

you'll need:

CleanInstaller, download it here

Porting Kit, download it here (or a wine wrapper of your choice but this one's free & my examples will be referencing Porting Kit directly)

not being afraid of Terminal

a vague understanding of wine wrappers & how to use them

first, download CleanInstaller. second, download and install Porting Kit (or whatever you're using). then, make a bottle for the CleanInstaller, name it whatever, and install CleanInstaller into the bottle. this will take some time and Porting Kit will seemingly freak out but it'll happen!

then, Terminal time! first, we need to find where Wine is installed, so just paste this into Terminal:

find /Applications/cleaninstaller.app -name "wine" -type f 2>/dev/null

cleaninstaller.app is the name of my bottle, replace it with whatever you've named yours.

you'll get a response that looks kind of like this:

/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/Wineskin.app/Contents/Resources/wine

then, while we're at it, we also have to find where we'll put the .sims2pack file so that CleanInstaller can actually see it:

find /Applications/cleaninstaller.app -name "Temp" -type d 2>/dev/null

again, replace cleaninstaller.app with whatever you've named your bottle. you'll get something like:

/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/SharedSupport/prefix/drive_c/users/yourusername/Temp

if there's no Temp folder, you'll get an error but not to worry! just make the folder manually.

make sure you copy these locations out somewhere.

okay. now we'll copy the .sims2pack file into that Temp folder. you can do this manually, but we're already in Terminal so what the hell.

note, this command assumes that you have your .sims2pack file in your Downloads folder. this is not the Downloads folder where you put your CC, this is just the standard Downloads folder on your Mac where things go when you download them lol. ofc replace the path if you have it somewhere else.

note 2, make sure there are no spaces in the file name.

cp ~/Downloads/filename.sims2pack "/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/SharedSupport/prefix/drive_c/users/yourusername/Temp/"

and now, drumroll please, we're going to open the .sims2pack file in CleanInstaller:

WINEPREFIX="/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/SharedSupport/prefix" "/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/Wineskin.app/Contents/Resources/wine" "/Applications/cleaninstaller.app/Contents/SharedSupport/prefix/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Sims2Pack Clean Installer/Sims2Pack Clean Installer.exe" "C:\users\yourusername\Temp\filename.sims2pack"

don't forget to replace the bits with your own names!

and now CleanInstaller should open with your .sims2pack file, rejoice!

now, I'm sure there's a way to get CleanInstaller to unpack your files right into your Sims 2 > Downloads folder, but I couldn't be arsed to figure it out and Mac paths are weird. instead, I just unpack them to my Documents folder:

click Install in CleanInstaller

untick Default Installation

choose Downloads in the dropdown

select .package file extension

click Install

this will automatically create an EA Games > The Sims 2 > Downloads folder. I like to keep some of the stuff here for backup purposes, and I just copy paste the files into my actual Sims 2 Downloads folder.

and that's it!! once you've found your paths, you don't need to run those commands again for installing more lots, just repeat the last two commands.

and i understand wanting to help bc i also feel bad abt sitting in my warm apartment in safety and comfort when a country we literally share a border with is going through something i cannot even begin to imagine*

but take a moment and step back and appreciate how this will have no effect on your own life & then make sure that the information you're sharing is from a reputable source & make sure it will help rather than cause harm. take a moment and question everything. read up on whatever you need to read up on but make sure to listen to what ukrainian people say & amplify voices that know better than you

to my ukrainian followers: my heart goes out to you. you'll be in my thoughts and prayers. romania is ready to be accepting 500000 refugees and i can say this for a lot of my peers: you're welcomed by not only the government but by the people, too. i can't imagine what you're going through but my inbox is open if it means anything