sogoshable

I cracked open the installed game that came with this computer, updated my mods, and went in to play. Not only did they use the game installer for everything (I've since removed those files), but there's houses full of sims in the lots bin!!! Nooooo.......

I remember them having some problems with their game once before, so given the massive amounts of gibberish package files, I think this was how they packaged up and re-imported their sims, cc, houses, you name it. I have the fun job of trying to sort out this mess. Remember, the cd drive is shot, so I'm stuck with this install if I want to play at all.

IIRC, there's a tutorial, or a mod (debugger maybe), over at MATY for properly deleting sims. I'm wondering if I could I do this, and then delete all the neighborhoods? Or would deleting the neighborhoods alone simply fix this? I've read that deleting the neighborhood folder alone is a VBI, but if I delete the regular Maxis hoods within the game, will they still regenerate? I'd still like to play the Maxis hoods, I just don't want any dangling data.

P.S. Should I have character files in the main LotCatalog - because there's 229 of them.