How to Find/Clean Broken Sims 4 Mods! (EASY)

[Music] foreign hey guys welcome or welcome back to my Channel today I'm going to be showing you guys how to clean broken custom content or mods that are conflicting with your game I know this is a huge issue especially when Sims updates come out some people can't even get into their game because of their mods so I really hope this helps some of you because even I have problems with this too sometimes I'm going to be showing you guys three super easy methods on how to do this um so let's get started okay this first method is the Sims 4 Trey importer which is mainly for custom content this is the download page I'll leave the link in the description to start off you're just going to go ahead and download this file I do already have it downloaded but you're just going to go ahead and open the zip file and then click the application once you open the application you're going to go ahead and install it you're going to follow all these steps I already have this installed so I'm not going to do this but just go ahead and follow it and once it installs just follow what I do next before we get into the tray importer we're just going to go ahead and bring her into Create a Sim okay and now the way that this works um basically I have a bunch of hairs that I honestly don't use like I don't use half of these but what you can do is you can create your sim like a bunch of outfits it honestly doesn't matter and you can go ahead and just like click on a hair or a shirt pants whatever that you don't want I have um this hair that I downloaded yesterday which obviously you can see it's broken so I don't want it I also have two alpha hairs that I never ever use that I want to delete so you're just going to go ahead and create a second outfit option on your sim and I do not want this one and I don't want this one while I'm at it I'm going to get rid of that and this and then these two so I'm just going to go ahead and go to formal and then just create more outfits of like the stuff that I want to delete after you save your sim to Gallery you're going to go ahead and open the Sims 4 tray importer okay once we're here as you can see this is everything that I have in my Sims gallery this is what we want right up here Weston and as you can see obviously from the picture if you go to files these are your tray files and then if you go to CC this is every piece of custom content that she has on um basically we're looking for the hair that's broken and the hairs that I added that I didn't want if you go through and tap on these there's always going to be a picture on the right side so it doesn't matter if your Sims wearing like a bunch of custom content that you don't want to delete you'll always be able to find it easily with the picture so this is the alpha hair that I wanted to delete I'm going to go ahead and right click and show containing folder and it'll immediately take me to my mods folder where this piece is so we're just going to go ahead and hit it's open in The Sims 4. okay let me close my game okay now back to where we were show containing folder it'll bring us here and we're going to go ahead and delete it and I wanted to delete this one as well show containing folder delete you're kind of just going to have to go through everything to see the pictures of what you want to delete or if you just made a Sim like a bass Sim with no clothes and just added what you want to delete that is also definitely easier so you can go ahead and do that as well once it's deleted on the preview picture will like have a little circle X out through it that's how you know it worked he did what you had to do and it's no longer in your game for the people whose mod folders consist of creative Sim stuff and you want to clear it out I definitely recommend this method because it is so efficient this method is super easy and I recommend doing this for Create a Sim stuff it works so well okay the next one is the 50 50 method which I recommend but at the same time it does take a very long time depending on how many mods you have so as you can see down here I have over 2000 mods so that's kind of a lot basically if something's conflicting with your game and you can't really play it but like you don't know which mod it is the 50 50 method is um highlighting 50 of your mods how much do I have I have 40 whatever so you create a separate folder on your desktop you place 50 mods in there load up your game if it doesn't work that means you didn't get it so the 50 you originally put are safe after you can go ahead and place that 50 back in your mods folder do another 50 place it in a separate folder load into your game if it's not working then it's not any of those mods it is a super long process and I have done this during the infants when they came out I wanted to cry because of how long it took I recommend this though if you have a lot of time on your hands and if you barely have mods this is definitely the method for you if you press date modified and you tap on it it is going to take you to all of the mods that you downloaded first so originally when you get into your folder it's going to show everything you've downloaded recently but if you press date modified it'll show you all of the things you've downloaded first I recommend starting the 50 50 method from this way just because the mods that are older are most likely the ones that are broken so I definitely recommend starting from your older mods compared to your more recent ones that is the 5050 method though it it's a pain in the ass I will say it really is um just to show you guys what I mean we're going to go ahead and create a new folder we'll call it mods one and basically you just take 50 of your mods that's 50 exactly and place it into Mods one and now that everything's gone you would load up your game to see if any of these mods were broken if none of them are broken you can just go ahead and place them back in your regular mods folder and you can start with another 50 and keep loading your game back up okay the next one is the better exceptions mod which ironically it is a mod to help you find broken mods and custom content better exceptions is probably the first method I would recommend for you guys just because it concludes of CC and mods whereas The Sims 4 tray importer is just mainly custom content and then the 50 50 method I don't really know if anyone's going to go ahead and give that a shot just because it does take a while but with better exceptions I'll leave this link in the description you're just going to go ahead and there's a whole bunch of stuff um once you download this you're going to go ahead and put this in your mods folder which I already have it in there so we're just going to go ahead and jump back into the Sims okay once you're in your game with better exceptions if there's ever like a patch day that the Sims 4 is doing you'll get a pop-up immediately saying it looks like it's patch day um check for mods here and you can go ahead and press yes but when you load into your game and that doesn't happen you will have the welcome to better exceptions v3.11 whatever you're going to go ahead and press open better exceptions menu you can do all of these things check for conflicts locate outfit CC so we're gonna go ahead and check for conflicts and then it's going to load depending on how many mods you have it might take a while once it checks for conflicts it is going to open a browser on your PC so as you can see these are the things that might be conflicting with my game hint I said might be if your game is running smoothly which mine currently is so I honestly don't think any of these mods are a problem at the moment okay so what you would do is you're going to highlight you're not going to highlight mods but you're going to highlight the name and then what the file is called you're going to open your mods folder and you're going to paste that in here and we're going to open file location and then you'd go ahead and delete that I'm not experiencing any problems though so I'm going to go ahead and leave all of these the way it is if you're having problems in your game and there's like an animation that's not working or like your sim can't do something for some reason better exceptions will open the browser for you without you doing anything if it notices that something is wrong with your game depending how many mods are here I'd like delete maybe like four of them and then load into your game and then if those aren't it put them back and then the other four again kind of like the 50 50 method but this way it's not taking a ton of time out of your day because your list should never be bigger than this okay I'm editing the video right now and I totally just um realized that I forgot to mention something when opening the better exceptions menu after a patch day or an update you can go ahead and run patch compatibility scanner um when horse ranch came out I had a problem where my sim couldn't get on the horse and the compatibility scanner popped up and told me what the problem was so if you go ahead and tap this it's going to open a browser so basically these mods need to be removed or updated so you can go ahead just copy and paste put them in your mods folder and remove them or copy and paste and go ahead and Google it and look for an update Running the patch day scanner is mainly mods it usually won't be custom content running the patch scanner is going to be mostly mods and not custom content so this is also a better way to find what mod is actually conflicting with your game whereas if you're just doing a better exceptions report it's probably just going to be custom content you can go ahead and just remove them or update them and that is most likely what's conflicting with your game if you go ahead and do um testing cheats on you can go ahead and shift click on your sim and you can do better exceptions locate outfit CC which it'll go ahead and do this and this is all of the custom content she is wearing for her everyday outfit so if you go to different outfits like formal active sleepwear this will like all be different it's depending on what your Sim's wearing but you can go ahead and locate it this way too um instead of using like Trey importer anyways that is my three methods on how to clean um custom content and mods if you guys have any questions especially for better exceptions I know that that one's super confusing definitely let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to get back to you I also wanted to say thank you guys so much for the support on my channel recently it literally means the world to me and I am so excited for the content that I have coming but anyways I really hope you guys enjoyed this video and like I said if you guys have any questions definitely let me know in the comments and I hope you guys enjoyed and I will see you guys next time

Channel: jasthesimmer

Views: 22,088

Keywords: sims4, thesims4, sims4mods

Id: rySOe5LOfBs

Length: 10min 21sec (621 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 15 2023