Hi, Hello.

From what I've found, Bulk Rename Utility is the go-to program for sim-players, wanting to cut down on their loading times by shortening the file names of their CC.
However, my BRU doesn't seem to register recolour packages, specifically (edit: Nope, just noticed the folder in my screenshots also contained a few non-RC files, so apparently some folders register and others don't).

Even if there'd been settings to change file associations for BRU (which there isn't), it wouldn't matter. It just seems kinda random, whether it detects them or not.
Any ideas? Am I doing something weird once again?

Included a picture-example of files not showing up.

Could it be filepath length? Try shortening the name of the files, or the folders they are in.

I did try that. It's just "SunMoon-Req/Dishware-Color-Controller" :/
If it can't handle that, it wouldn't be very useful as a program meant to let you shorten filepath names in bulk, lol.

I got it! You were right about the filepath-length, but it wasn't that the program can't handle longer filepaths, it's that there was a setting in the "filters" section, that lets you choose the min/max filepath-length to display and it's set to 100 as default. Thanks for steering me in the right direction :D

Oh well figured, glad you got it sorted!

Changing the names of your CC doesn't help with loading times, by the way. The only issue with file names is that if the file path is too long the game won't be able to find them at all, but that's it.

For a future reader, the file path starts from the drive letter. So it's probably something more like, "C:\Users\MyName\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\SunMoon-Req\Dishware-Color-Controller\filename.package." Plenty of characters!

Further to what kestrellyn and Topp say, it is often said that using certain 'special characters' in Sims 2 causes increased loading time, which is also not true. However, it's possible for deeply nested folders to cause a slight increase in loading (I've seen this on my own potato computer playing Sims 2, but it might not be noticable on faster solid state drives).
There was some discussion on this a while ago- Tashiketh did some testing here:

https://modthesims.info/showthread....775#post5724775

(some discussion in the posts before and after that one too).

Thank you all for your help I read the part of the thread pertaining to load times and I'm really surprised by it. The posts I'd read on other sites, before starting this project, were reporting significant decreases in their respective load times, since they'd shortened the names of all of their CC files. However, that one person in the thread presented imperical data to the contrary and I'm not one to argue with such.

Have a wonderful day, simmers *imagine a peace-sign here, as I'm writing this as a Quick Reply and I'm semi-busy and lazy*

If you load the game multiple times in a row, subsequent loads will be much faster because the data is already in the cache. So if you start the game for the first time in a while, then quit, and then start it again immediately after, it will always be much faster regardless of what you do in between the first start and the second start.

^ Same with Bodyshop. Takes a while to load the first time, but reopening in the same session is a lot faster (even when deleting the game caches).