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SimCity 4 General Discussion and Tutorials => SimCity 4 General Discussion => General Custom Content Discussion => Topic started by: Grneyes on October 06, 2008, 05:44:47 PM

Title: Dumb newbie question
Post by: Grneyes on October 06, 2008, 05:44:47 PM
Ok, I freely admit I am computer illiterate. I have been downloading stuff from the LEX and STEX and, as you know, some of it has to be unzipped. After it is unzipped and the files extracted, can I delete the zip file? Also, is there a place I can put all the read-mes?

MaryBeth
Title: Re: Dumb newbie question
Post by: High5Tower on October 06, 2008, 06:42:36 PM
You could delete all the zips but I think its a good idea to hang onto them. I keep all my zips in a folder I call zips and at the end of each month I then move them over to my external hard drive for safe keeping. Yes there have been times when I am glad I saved them.
Read me's are another thing I hold onto an its amazing how much I refer back to them. Since some sights do not give you a formal readme like the LEX does I created my own Master readme file. After I download the zip file I do a save as of the picture of the new item and then I scroll down and do a save as of the description area. I then put these in there properly name folder and store them in my Master Readme file. After doing this since December of 06 it its become a habit and is fast and painless to do. I also do this with all the LEX downloads even though they do put them in their own readme file.
Title: Re: Dumb newbie question
Post by: Grneyes on October 07, 2008, 07:42:23 PM
So where is your master zip file? Is it in your mydocs/simcity4 file?
Title: Re: Dumb newbie question
Post by: High5Tower on October 07, 2008, 08:33:14 PM
Its in a Desk Top file I titled SimCity work.
Also in the folder I have files titled:
     Holding area
     Plug & Play; Things that I downloaded, tested and decided that I do not want in my active plugins at this time.
     Quaranteend: items that I have removed from the game.
     Readme's 
     Zips