Help Cleaning Out Old Ploppable Residentials

[Mawgojzeta 2]

(Posted this on SC4Devotion, also)

Hi!  I quite playing SC4 for quite awhile ago (two years or more) and recently started playing again.  I had, way back then, downloaded ploppable residential buildings that went into the Landmarks section.  They never seemed to work and I meant to remove them, but then had quite playing.  Now, I am trying to dig them out and get rid of them, but cannot seem to find them (!!!).

The names (of a few of them) are Posh Villa, Stone Chateau, Victorian Mansion, Pleasant Brick, Small Estate, and others with starting names of DeVries, Bella Ella, Periana, White, Oooh La La, and Modern.  I have a bunch of apartments and high rises, too.  Does anyone remember who made these way back then?  Or the zip file names (I think I saved all my zip files)? Or any other information?

I used Datpacker before I realized I still had these in and I wonder if that is why I cannot find them now....

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

If you Datpacked without keeping an uncompressed back up of your plugins folder, then you will not be able to remove the files in question (unless there is software to crack open DATs, I have not looked into it). It sounds like the buildings you are having trouble with are just maxis growables turned into plopables. I believe they should still work if you plop these over DEVELOPED residential zones of the same size, so if you cant get them out, you could always try that.

Best of luck,

-Todd

[Mawgojzeta 2]

That is what I thought. I had a whole bunch of old "loose" files just sitting in my plugins folder when I used Datpacker and I think that did get combined (or maybe always were???). I discovered by doing some more investigation online later last night that the buildings were made using the buildings from the Houston tileset (and some others). So you are absolutely right on your suggestion they may be modified Maxis buildings. I finally found the files sitting in "plugins compressed" after that looking for the word "Houston" and removed it and 3 others with similar names. Seems to have gotten them all! Thank you.

[smstevenms 7]

Im actually trying to find "New York Stone Chateaus", its required for Sharrnia Mansion. You mentioned this file so thought you might know, I can't seem to find it.