When I download from MTS it works just fine if its a packaged file but when i download rar files they don't work, they download and look like their already extracted by looking like a plain sheet of paper on the icon, it doesn't give me the option to extract & its not in my game play. A'm I doing something wrong, skipping a step, or is it my computer.???

Sounds like you may not have WinRAR installed to extract the file?

Start here: http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:RAR

I have a problem so I thought I'd tag it on to this feed. I have sims 3 up too island paradise&movie stuff, I aldo have it updated to the latest patch. I've downloaded lots of different package files and they are already unzipped when I download them so I know this isn't my problem. However, a lot of the package files aren't working, mainly anubis sims cc, skins (from various places) and eyes/contacts. I don't know why they aren't working and it's so frustrating.

They worked before, however, I haven't played sims in a couple of years due to lack of time and computer, but obviously since then there have been more ep's, sp's and patches.
The only other things I use are the nraas mods.

Does anyone know any skins anywhere that work with the latest patch and up to island paradise & movie stuff pack?

Phoenix, please stop tagging to various threads and create your own. Your problem might be different from theirs.

I don't know how, it's the first time I've posted on mts