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[MAC USER] some .package files are white?

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16th Oct 2006, 09:53 PM	[MAC USER] some .package files are white? #1
emmejuice Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 105	In my downloads folder, there are some .package files that are grey with green text as the display picture, and some that are simply a white piece of paper. I'm wondering if this means anything... because it seems like not all my downloads get in my game. I have several thousand so its hard to tell if specific ones dont load in. I would take a screenshot of the 2 different kinds of .package files i get, but i don't think macs can take screenshots? Is it that zip files look one way when made into .packages and rar files look another way? Or maybe i'm doing one way wrong and thats why they look like a white sheet of paper? Yeh... if you can help that would be fantasmotic :-)
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16th Oct 2006, 10:51 PM	#2
simsample 'Death, death, death' Until the sun cries morning Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 16,822 Thanks: 7857 in 83 Posts 18 Achievements View My Journal	A picture would be useful- hit command (apple key), shift and 3 together to get a screen snapshot pasted to your desktop. You could also use Grab (in your Utilities folder).
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16th Oct 2006, 11:23 PM	#3
emmejuice Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 105	:O I learn something new about this Mac every day... thanks :-) Heres a screenshot: http://i10.tinypic.com/2mpdjqq.png
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17th Oct 2006, 01:15 AM	#4
HugeLunatic Not Suitable for Minors Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,600 Thanks: 116309 in 145 Posts 42 Achievements View My Journal	That's just the icon the mac displays for an executable file. It doesn't matter if it was a zip or rar. And it works regardless. Mine all did that after a system update once. I have since done uninstalls/installs numerous times so mine are all either the paper or the woohoo icon.
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17th Oct 2006, 11:17 AM	#5
emmejuice Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 105	Aww alright thanks :-)
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29th Dec 2006, 09:20 PM	#6
moonglo Test Subject Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2	I have the same problem. All the white files, the non executable files, won't work. Is there any program that would get them to work? Most of the files I seem to be able to download are all the non executable ones. Thanks!

30th Dec 2006, 04:13 AM	#7
HugeLunatic Not Suitable for Minors Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,600 Thanks: 116309 in 145 Posts 42 Achievements View My Journal	All the downloads are non executable files. If they are recolors of Maxis items you need the cep. You also need to make sure you have cc enabled in game.
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31st Dec 2006, 02:32 AM	#8
flameflash Field Researcher Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 291	I'd strongly recommend getting one of the file-typers though from around here. There's a LAPD or something... (folks, care to help me out?) I use WooHoo, but the creator is MIA and I guess we're not allowed to pass it around. As you download more things though, the computer seems to have a tendency to get confused if the files aren't typed correctly.
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31st Dec 2006, 04:23 AM	#9
Marhis Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 186 Thanks: 22873 in 23 Posts 18 Achievements View My Journal	Don't know about LAPD, maybe these two: http://homepage.mac.com/petergould/DBPF/ http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=104266

31st Dec 2006, 06:32 PM

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flameflash

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Marhis

Don't know about LAPD, maybe these two:

http://homepage.mac.com/petergould/DBPF/

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=104266

I knew it was something with letters.

DBPF it is!

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8th Jan 2007, 01:29 AM

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moonglo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HugeLunatic

All the downloads are non executable files. If they are recolors of Maxis items you need the cep. You also need to make sure you have cc enabled in game.

I have the CEP, I know it's working because I have recoloured objects in my game. But none of the white package files ever work. I've made sure that they are compatible with my game.

8th Jan 2007, 05:15 PM

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flameflash

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Quote:

Originally Posted by moonglo

I have the CEP, I know it's working because I have recoloured objects in my game. But none of the white package files ever work. I've made sure that they are compatible with my game.

Then it's probably the CC bug we found here a while ago (or related to it.)

Get that DBPF and if the icons change then you're probably in good shape. If the files aren't typed properly they sometimes don't like showing up.

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