The merged files can hold up to 2gb :) this was my life the past couple days! Organizing ALL of my cc and re-merging files...went from 30gb to 15...and now I can play again yay!! but knowing me I'm about to go cc shopping haha...🤣😎
I recently learned how to merge, my biggest merged file is 134MB and ALOT of my cc is missing in game somehow.... I seen you said a merge file can hold up to 2GB tho do you know why this is happening or the cause? :((
@@hannahjackson4454 you can't merge sets (already merged files) and you shouldn't merge any script files...what program are you using to merge your files? Are you using Sims 4 Studio? I usually have no issues merging up to 2gb and if there are problems, the program usually specifies what files failed to merge...the only other thing I can think of for you is if you have duplicates or are missing meshes, I use the Tray Importer program to check for these types of issues...I hope some of this can help but let me know if you have any more questions or need help. Good luck 👍
@@Daesgamingroom From my understanding, the Sims 4 runs slower with more packages because each package is opened 1 by 1, so even though the size of the packages have effect, consolidating the amount saves more time and adds effeciency
Dude merging is so underrated. I've only recently bothered to do shit like that and the difference has been soooo massive Tho if like me you were at any point kinda lazy with sorting PLEASE look through it all before hand. I merged all my shit a few years ago and recently unmerged it all only to find sliders, default replacements, and somehow someway traits that were so old that they were still broken from that update we got in what... 2018? 2019? Save yourself the headache... 🙃
I definitely don't have as much cc as you but my computer isn't built for gaming. Currently it takes so long to load up and then load up Sims on top. The game can also get slow so maybe I'll try this out!
Upgrade your drive to ssd if you can! I just did and omg my computer is fast. Mine was super slow even just turning it on or trying to surf the web and the game was so laggy but after upgrading it's like a new computer. It's so fast and the game starts up (even with all my mods) way faster than it ever did before!
@@nairalise if your desktop is upgradeable you should have a slot in your tower to put the SSD in. You could find them online or at Best Buy for about $70-100 and it'll make all the difference.
I highly suggest keeping copys of each folder for adding and deleting content... Then delete from s4s and merge again. Also DO NOT merge mods or anything that might need to be updated. I just manually put those in my mods folder. Also only one file deep in the mods folder... Like mods folder- and one folder to organize but thats it. And just because I'm lazy I organize my merged files by alphabet. They are easier to locate and make sure I don't duplicate.
I love this video and I wanna try it so bad!! I know it will help me! Now to get the motivation to merge 140GB+ of CC… Edit: I finally did it and this took my load time from an hour and a half to literally 10 minutes I wanna kiss you and cry at the same time omg!! Thank you so much you are doing the lords work!
hi, are u still there? i can't understand why everyone in the comments said the way merge file make reduce cc folder . But i still have the same ammount of MB, like 750 is still 750 MB
I've been merging all my files for gameplay but keeping them unmerged in an external SSD card for safekeeping.. managing cc for the sims 4 is like a part time job LOL
For some reason this worked great with clothing but when got to hair, all of a sudden my hair that I merged is missing in CAS, luckily I was able to restore but not sure why it wouldn't show up
I hear broken CC will make merging like not possible or something? What do we do if we need to delete our broken CC but dont wanna go through all of it.
thanks for your videos you do a great job! I do have a question though that I can't seem to find an answer to, hopefully you can help :) do you have to separate hair for example, like only female hair merged, only male merged, only kids etc ?
Say if you merged hair package 1 and hair package 2, both the packages have 60 hairs in them individually, so would you be able to merge the merged packages? Sorry if this question is confusing😅
This is what I wanted to do, lol. My cc for build mode is just merged all together with no separation for each category and it's been driving me crazy. And so I thought of this idea but was afraid to try it out since I was afraid it would not un-merge. I haven't tried it out, but I thought of an idea already to experiment on this that wouldn't really harm your previous cc's. Don't know if you'd like to hear me out since your comment was posted three months ago. You must have figured it out or moved on, lol. Let me know if I can be of help, maybe.
@@Kreative_kelly Seriously, same. I doubt that this would actually work, although I still do want to try for myself. It wouldn't harm the cc's you use, anyway. Go and download a couple of *unwanted* cc. Make sure you have enough cc's downloaded to create two packages. Maybe download 4, or 8.Then, merge together those two cc packages that you just merged, then play The Sims 4 for an hour. Look for the cc's you downloaded in the game to see if they are there with no errors and if they're working fine. I suggested you play for an hour so that you could observe the game if it's running well. If the cc's aren't there, if the cc's has some errors to it, if TS4 starts lagging, crashing, and stuff, then you already know what's the problem. If you confirm that merging merged packages don't work well for TS4, you could just delete those unwanted cc's. I really do suggest experimenting on unwanted cc's because if you did this with the cc's you use, you could have some errors in the game or even lose them if this doesn't work!
How do you always know what I need when I'm working on it. xD I was merging CC but not sure how much I should merge together. Do or can you merge anything outside of CC?
So one issue I have is that when I load into sims 4(new save) it shows a white screen but when I look it up it shows it's all these other things and some of my cc can't be opened with sims studio:(
thanks for tips, question: can you merge mods for example like little ms sam mods because there are lilke all together a lot of files I know you can merge the script files but the package files? I have most of her mods and all together with the scripts they come to like 400 files
u can get the sims4 mod manager and go to problems then duplicates and it tells u which ones u have more than once and then u just put delete all and ur done
I merged my hairs correctly, all files under 2gb, put the merged packages in my mods folder but they didn't show up in game? Can anybody help me pls? 😭
@@babygirlhehe9748 no not when it’s merged .. I mean I have 15,000 mods after I merge all 15,000 of them can I delete the individual mods . Because when you unmerge it makes duplicate files
@@LaniBrasi i think you just answered your own question 😅 you have to unmerge it and then you delete what you don't want and then merge it again and replace the previous merged file
Im sorry if I missed this part in video, but I was wanting to know if I delete the package files after ive merged them? Not the merged package. Just the individual ones.
Hope this helps make your Sims 4 run faster if you have a lot of CC!
Question?? After merging CC into packages do we delete those single files that are in the mods folder?
The merged files can hold up to 2gb :) this was my life the past couple days! Organizing ALL of my cc and re-merging files...went from 30gb to 15...and now I can play again yay!! but knowing me I'm about to go cc shopping haha...🤣😎
I recently learned how to merge, my biggest merged file is 134MB and ALOT of my cc is missing in game somehow.... I seen you said a merge file can hold up to 2GB tho do you know why this is happening or the cause? :((
@@hannahjackson4454 you can't merge sets (already merged files) and you shouldn't merge any script files...what program are you using to merge your files? Are you using Sims 4 Studio? I usually have no issues merging up to 2gb and if there are problems, the program usually specifies what files failed to merge...the only other thing I can think of for you is if you have duplicates or are missing meshes, I use the Tray Importer program to check for these types of issues...I hope some of this can help but let me know if you have any more questions or need help. Good luck 👍
@@sabyinah omg okay I will try this out thank you so much!! Also yes I use the sims 4 studio
Wait how does this make ur game run smoother? It’s still the same amount of GB as it was individual?
@@Daesgamingroom From my understanding, the Sims 4 runs slower with more packages because each package is opened 1 by 1, so even though the size of the packages have effect, consolidating the amount saves more time and adds effeciency
Dude merging is so underrated. I've only recently bothered to do shit like that and the difference has been soooo massive
Tho if like me you were at any point kinda lazy with sorting PLEASE look through it all before hand. I merged all my shit a few years ago and recently unmerged it all only to find sliders, default replacements, and somehow someway traits that were so old that they were still broken from that update we got in what... 2018? 2019?
Save yourself the headache... 🙃
I definitely don't have as much cc as you but my computer isn't built for gaming. Currently it takes so long to load up and then load up Sims on top. The game can also get slow so maybe I'll try this out!
Upgrade your drive to ssd if you can! I just did and omg my computer is fast. Mine was super slow even just turning it on or trying to surf the web and the game was so laggy but after upgrading it's like a new computer. It's so fast and the game starts up (even with all my mods) way faster than it ever did before!
@@sabyinah how do i do that ?
@@nairalise if your desktop is upgradeable you should have a slot in your tower to put the SSD in. You could find them online or at Best Buy for about $70-100 and it'll make all the difference.
I highly suggest keeping copys of each folder for adding and deleting content... Then delete from s4s and merge again. Also DO NOT merge mods or anything that might need to be updated. I just manually put those in my mods folder. Also only one file deep in the mods folder... Like mods folder- and one folder to organize but thats it.
And just because I'm lazy I organize my merged files by alphabet. They are easier to locate and make sure I don't duplicate.
I love this video and I wanna try it so bad!! I know it will help me! Now to get the motivation to merge 140GB+ of CC…
Edit: I finally did it and this took my load time from an hour and a half to literally 10 minutes I wanna kiss you and cry at the same time omg!! Thank you so much you are doing the lords work!
Dear lawd you need to chill omg 🤣
What type of files did you merge ?
i have about the same amount of gbs of cc you have i hope this works for me!!!
girl you need to clear some cc out😭😭✋️
Do you really need that much cc?😭😭
Girl I needed this lmao my game lags during build and it didn’t before although I have wayyyyy less cc than I do on my other computer.
Istg i need this SO BADLY my sims 4 runs HORRIBLY- Thank you so much - better get to watching :)
Very helpful tool decreased my cc from 5k to just 10 20 merged files ty for showing this my game just freeze like 5 - 10 min to just load up lol X)
Ah yes, I "purged" my cc by hitting the merge button the satisfaction of having a "small" cc folder
hi, are u still there? i can't understand why everyone in the comments said the way merge file make reduce cc folder . But i still have the same ammount of MB, like 750 is still 750 MB
Great tutorial! And I love the throwback OG Sims music at the end!
Thank you I have been looking for this and every other video doesn’t go right into what I need.
Omg thank you so much for this tutorial! My game was starting to get slow from the amount of CC I had lmao!
YOU ARE A WHOLE LIFE SAVER!!!!!
Thank you so much for this tip! It will be great to implement
Thank you so much, this is a lifesaver!
Really helpful! 👏👏👏
So glad!
I've been merging all my files for gameplay but keeping them unmerged in an external SSD card for safekeeping.. managing cc for the sims 4 is like a part time job LOL
You just saved my life wish I could give this more likes
What if you have duplicated files? what happens then when you merge it? and download the same cc without realizing it?
saving this to do myself later. gotta reorganize and go through it all XD
For some reason this worked great with clothing but when got to hair, all of a sudden my hair that I merged is missing in CAS, luckily I was able to restore but not sure why it wouldn't show up
tysm! i love cc shopping ❤️
Can you please do one on batch fixes??
so like.. I had merged files but thought it was bad to have them LOL LOL and now my game had 29k files
in it.. So :D here i am remerging things
AND I'm subscribed! thank you!!!
I hear broken CC will make merging like not possible or something? What do we do if we need to delete our broken CC but dont wanna go through all of it.
Me, having over 20K [62GB] CC....
This is late but I was wondering if you could merge costum CAS traits?
thanks for your videos you do a great job! I do have a question though that I can't seem to find an answer to, hopefully you can help :) do you have to separate hair for example, like only female hair merged, only male merged, only kids etc ?
Omg I hope this works 🤞🏾
it isnt compressing the files,cant make the game load faster,so id rather let them be there and delete something i dont use often
Say if you merged hair package 1 and hair package 2, both the packages have 60 hairs in them individually, so would you be able to merge the merged packages?
Sorry if this question is confusing😅
I don’t know for sure but I don’t think it would
This is what I wanted to do, lol. My cc for build mode is just merged all together with no separation for each category and it's been driving me crazy. And so I thought of this idea but was afraid to try it out since I was afraid it would not un-merge. I haven't tried it out, but I thought of an idea already to experiment on this that wouldn't really harm your previous cc's. Don't know if you'd like to hear me out since your comment was posted three months ago. You must have figured it out or moved on, lol. Let me know if I can be of help, maybe.
@@user-gz4ik2yx4y I would love to hear anything you have to say. I’ve taken so much out of my game but I keep adding more. I need some help😂😂🤦♀️
@@Kreative_kelly Seriously, same. I doubt that this would actually work, although I still do want to try for myself. It wouldn't harm the cc's you use, anyway. Go and download a couple of *unwanted* cc. Make sure you have enough cc's downloaded to create two packages. Maybe download 4, or 8.Then, merge together those two cc packages that you just merged, then play The Sims 4 for an hour. Look for the cc's you downloaded in the game to see if they are there with no errors and if they're working fine. I suggested you play for an hour so that you could observe the game if it's running well. If the cc's aren't there, if the cc's has some errors to it, if TS4 starts lagging, crashing, and stuff, then you already know what's the problem. If you confirm that merging merged packages don't work well for TS4, you could just delete those unwanted cc's. I really do suggest experimenting on unwanted cc's because if you did this with the cc's you use, you could have some errors in the game or even lose them if this doesn't work!
@@user-gz4ik2yx4y I will definitely be trying this out soon. Thank you!
I only have 55 items for the sims, so it’s obviously way less. But i was wondering if u have to have separate files for like hairs and clothes.
This is real late but ya u have separate folders for CC hairs and clothing
i have alot of cc- but now i only have like two files-
How do you always know what I need when I'm working on it. xD I was merging CC but not sure how much I should merge together. Do or can you merge anything outside of CC?
No you cant merge mods and script files. Just cc package files
@@Morbid_GamerOkay that’s what I thought. Do things like custom CAS traits count as CC?
I have a question but what if you have broken cc and maybe you merged that broken cc when you were merging how does cleaning that out work?
unmerge the package and then remove the broken cc
Advice for an all in one hp desktop 🖥?
I'm glad I came across your video my game lags so much I'll be trying this tomorrow
So one issue I have is that when I load into sims 4(new save) it shows a white screen but when I look it up it shows it's all these other things and some of my cc can't be opened with sims studio:(
This really great thank you so much but I have one question, after we merged all our cc..can we merge the merged files?
Nope! Never tried it but doesn't sound good
Thank you for this :)
I can't get the sims studio because it's blocked for me :(
Can Sliders also be merged? Thanks for the tip btw.
i definitely wouldn’t recommend it since i believe those can be updated, just cc items like clothes, shoes, hair, accessories, etc
thanks for tips, question: can you merge mods for example like little ms sam mods because there are lilke all together a lot of files I know you can merge the script files but the package files? I have most of her mods and all together with the scripts they come to like 400 files
No, u cant.
you can only merge CAS items or building items. no functioning mods for the gameplay or anything that has script mods
@@babygirlhehe9748 hi! How do I merge buildings?
Can you merge single package files with other merged files?
I wouldnt try that personally
The only issue with this for me is . i forge what cc i have so it doenst warn me about me having them already lol
u can get the sims4 mod manager and go to problems then duplicates and it tells u which ones u have more than once and then u just put delete all and ur done
@@beuh-xb3un So even though the files are merged the Mod Manager recognise the duplicates?
My game won't even load. It's actually made loading slower. If you download anything from patreon, don't merge it.
ohh so you can’t merge stuff from patreon? :(
Ok how can l add new cc to the megered cc folder then?
Unmerge, add, merge again. Or save the hairs normally and then merge when you have a lot of files.
well i accidentally merged it with the merged one and now when i unmerged them i cant find them im so pissed off
PLEASE HELP, I merged my cc but it’s not appearing in game
im on a mac lol how do i find the content management part
I merged my hairs correctly, all files under 2gb, put the merged packages in my mods folder but they didn't show up in game? Can anybody help me pls? 😭
If you delete the sims 4 studio will the merged files be deleted 🤔
Nope!
After you merge it can you delete the custom content individually
if it's merged then it becomes one file so no lol
Guess you gotta unmerge it, delete what you want and then merge it back
@@babygirlhehe9748 no not when it’s merged .. I mean I have 15,000 mods after I merge all 15,000 of them can I delete the individual mods . Because when you unmerge it makes duplicate files
@@LaniBrasi i think you just answered your own question 😅 you have to unmerge it and then you delete what you don't want and then merge it again and replace the previous merged file
@@babygirlhehe9748 yes my mods still work in my game , thanks !
can you merge build mode cc with this too?
yes
Im sorry if I missed this part in video, but I was wanting to know if I delete the package files after ive merged them? Not the merged package. Just the individual ones.
Individual ones can be deleted
What’s are creator name ?
Can I merge poses?
no, you shouldn’t merge any “game mods” really just cc should be merged. it could break those mods
@@volson333 okay, thank you!
Can i merge furnitures?
Hi!! I wanted to know if its okay to merge cc poses??
noo
I did this and it broke all my cc it won’t show up in game now idk what to do I didn’t back it up stupid of me I know 😭
You must have done something wrong?
So after i merge the folders can i delete the stuff i merged?
Can I also merge my build mode cc?
Yeah, You can do it.
is it ok to merge ts4 script files with package files?
no
only merge package files!
Unless you want patch days to be a pain then no
I have no mods
am i prolem
Can you merge mod files as well?
No, dont merge any mods or script files
is it okay to do this with mod files too?
No. Don't use this with mods
what happens when you need to update a specific cc item?🥺 how does that work with the merged item and the new updated individual cc?🥲