Is the Radical Ordinance mod irremovable?

[BattleField-2142 9]

I've searched my whole computer for Radical, demand, crime, auto, and anything else that would contain the file and removed all of them [ I had a  ton placed at random spots on my computer ]. I still have the radical ordinance mod stuck in my game, and I want it gone.I also tried new regions and cities just in case it became permanent in areas that were already loaded. Still there. So, what can I do to get rid of this?

[CaptCity 4,752]

BattleField-2142...

As far as I know, it could only be one of two places to affect the game...

Check in MyDocuments/SimCity 4/Plugins folder or the Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Plugins folder.

The file name is "Plugin_RadicalOrdinance" (at least when I downloaded it). Hope this helps.

CC

[BattleField-2142 9]

Yeah, I searched, all of them are gone and it wont go away. [ By seaching my "whole computer" i mean using the search command while in My Computer.

[BattleField-2142 9]

Culprit discovered! When I made all my files .rar only to figure out Sc4 couldnt read .rar, when I decompressed it, it put certain files in two formats. The original, and a .dat.

I had the radical ordinance mod in a folder called random mods, and so many more random spots. Anyway, I found a .dat called "Random mods" so, when I found that same "Plugins_compressed" folder contained many more .dats of every one of my files, I found out that the radical ordinance mod was hiding in that .dat! How winrar thought doing that would be useful, I dont know, but it did! Thanks for helping CaptCity.

Sadly for me, I lose all my cities because I had to remove the plugins half by  half to find the bad plugin folder.

The only good news about losing the cities is that it was a completely new region with only 105k people because my last hard drive crashed. So I dont lose much more

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Well, I hope you will do two things now:

1.  Keep your plugins organized in subfolders, not combining any given mod or download.  What you save in load time can be a headache editing later.

2.  Make backups of your Regions and Plugins in sync.  When I do this, I save the whole Simcity 4 folder on a DVD and add the My programs\Maxis\Simcity 4\plugins file as well.  This gives you a full check point for the game.  If you use RW media, you can keep two disks and alternate them.  Be sure you get the labels on the disks right.

[BattleField-2142 9]

Thanks, but wont more sub folders add more load time, as it has to load both the folder and the stuff inside?

And for the discs, a great idea, but I never got to it as all the discs I could find had something on it I didnt want to remove and they are expensive. Also overwriting the old save may take awhile.

[tungston 19]

It doesn't load the folder, the folder is nothing more than an address to where the files is stored on the hard drive.

[BattleField-2142 9]

well maybe fragment the drive more?