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Why can't I get my Sims 2 downloads to work?

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Why can't I get my Sims 2 downloads to work?
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This is because you have to have a winzip program to decompress it before you put it in your game. Once you do this, you have to move the file you want to the proper folder... For example.. if it is homes you are downloading you would.. .... goto ...Nightlife, goto...TS Data, goto... Res, goto... Lot Templates and put file there.... once you extract the file BEHAND... it should work in the game. If it isn't homes you are downloading, examine what it is your are downloading and check out the files in the nightlife folder and find on that matches as closely as possible to what you are trying to do.
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First of all: You need to make sure you have your downloads in your downloads folder.. I have had this problem before and so I went to www.modthesims.com and downloaded Q-Xpress. When you download something make sure you save it under the downloads area and then open Q-Xpress and click browse and look for that file that you saved. Then click install and it should be in your game! Hope I helped!
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Did you put the zip in the right place? . . My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads. . If so, try taking it out of the Zip. Does the file end in ".package"? it should.
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Okay, anything in a winzip file needs to be extracted from the file in order to work. To do this right click on the file and choose extract then follow directions. You need to let it open the folder when you finish to make sure nothing inside the folder needs to be unzipped. If it has a sim2pak (blue thing like from the official site) you will still need to double click it to install and if it is a clothing item you need to pull it from the folder that it is in and put it into the downloads folder. If you take something from it's folder you can delete the empty folder. Hope this helps.
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it depends where it is from. if it is from the sims 2 game website it is in your sim file on drive c or something like that. but if you get it off a diff site you need to put it in your downloads folder in the sims2,documents, if you dont have a downloads folder make one called "downloads" . open your document downloads then you will have to extract them
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