My question is since origins latest updates the CC magic will not work. Is it not compatible with patch 1.69? If I uninstalled CC magic what happens to all of the content installed with it. Can I move the folder in there that says packages and put them in the mods folder and they still be in the game?

When you install CC with CCMagic, it’ll chuck all your files into the CC Magic > Content folder of the Electronic Arts directory (in My Documents)

Is it possible to change this location? I’m using an SSD, and I’d like for all the CC to go over to my 2TB drive instead of clogging up the SSD.

I've read a little about using it to merge packages to decrease lag. I read someone say something about licking the play button. Does that mean you have to hit the play button on CC magic from then on to launch the launcher? Or can I simply launch the launcher and everything works like before CC Magic? If you don't have to hit it to play what do you hit it for exactly? Also is it usable with patch 1.67?

~ It was not the last patch[1.69] that stopped CC Magic from working it was my Security Suite Updating to Windows 10, I did not install the Windows 10 update as My girlfriend did & Sims 3 did not work properly,( She also was the one who tested W8,Sims 3 did not work) I am still using Windows 7 Ultimate, so only since my Paid Security Suite updated to Windows 10 did CC Magic stop working, not the Patch, I was playing Sims3 when I was told to update my Security Suite, & to turn everything off & close all windows on my PC, after the update, I went back to my game, CC Magic will not load, & has not worked since that time!
~ So I had updated my Game to the new patch & everything was working well, it was an Windows 10 update that changed were my CC is located, & CC Magic can not read it anymore....................... (Even though I did not install Windows 10,because I wanted to keep playing my Sims3 game, but My security suite did update for windows 10,that then changed were my CC was on my PC, It is very simple, Windows 10 is not compatible with CC Magic as CC Magic can not find my Package files to read them!) My game did not change after the Patch, [1.69] it changed nothing but which games I could choose to play with,which is so cool! IMHO! Windows 10 killed CC Magic! As it can not find my files!

Hi,
I think this is a wonderful creation, and I want to thank you so much as this is a solution to my many issues. However, I'm not very sure where should I start with CC Magic and unfortunately your User's Guide is not working.

Try this one:
https://nonasims.wordpress.com/2012...-with-cc-magic/

CC Magic has been sitting very happily on my computer for ages and I find it an excellent utility. But today Comodo Internet Security flagged 'CC Magic/Uninstal' as 'suspicious'. I don't believe for a moment that it is, but its a little odd it should single that out of all things.

I recently installed Sims 3 version 1.69 onto my new laptop. Will CC Magic work with this version? At the moment, I need to use Origin to launch the game. Thanks!

So I had to factory reset the computer, and I'm running 1.69, and it does not work. Currently the override option is blank, and if I press play, the programme crashes.

Is there a way to fix this, or am I going to have to go through origin? *crosses fingers*

I'm bumping this because some of us are still playing TS3 and some are still having problems with content and with using CC Magic and yet there is not a lot of official help out there so it's up to those of us still using it to help each other. So here is my (layman) experience with it.

The Default tab, from my experience, is everything that CC Magic saw in your Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Downloads folder and therefore was processed by CC Magic. Legacy is whatever is in your the sims 3/Mods folder, at least in my game. I think it's, more specifically, everything that is not in Downloads when CC Magic is ran.
MY legacy(Mods) is basically everything I don't want to process through CC Magic, such as NRAAS stuff and other content that affects game play such as a mods to increase how much energy you get from coffee or how fast you skill gain, things like that. I put all those things straight into my Mods(Legacy) folder before I start the game (or CC Magic). I put ANYTHING into Mods that I am not sure CC magic will be able to play nice with.
Just know that Mods folder stuff (Legacy) doesn't actually get processed by CC Magic, so if your Mods (Legacy) folder is huge then your game could still be slow.
I put everything else into my the sims 3/downloads folder for CC Magic to process and then I run CC Magic and sort them into folders via CC Magic, such as Buy/surfaces or Build/doors or CAS/tops. I created all these subfolders under the Default tab/folder within CC MAGIC. You can actually just leave them in Default but I'm a organization freak. I hit rebuild once I am done organizing (takes a few minutes) and the game is ready to run.
Btw, install your STORE stuff via the sims 3 launcher. For me that means pay for it, then download it, then install it, then I check to make sure the sims 3 launcher shows it as installed.
Back to CC Magic:
What people don't realize is that rebuild with CC Magic STILL takes forever. The way it saves time is that as long as you don't download more content and process it through CC Magic, the next time you hit play the game loads quickly, but every time you need to rebuild (and you rebuild every time you download and install NEW content) it takes a while to rebuild.
Also,I see this question constantly on CC Magic forums so in case you need to know: All of your content that "disappeared" but still shows up in game is now in Electronic Arts/CCmagic/Content (there are more subfolders).

If you are looking for something that is making CC Magic (or your game) crash, go into the CC Magic/content folder and check all the subfolders to see if you can find what might be causing problems. Often it is some kind of content like I mentioned above that affects game play. In my experience, it is rarely something like a shirt or an object. This is doubly why I keep all those gameplay things in the Mods folder and also have those organized.
Some of the gameplay items conflict. For instance, if you have a mod that increases how fast you gain logic skill and you also have a increase all skills by 10 mod, those could conflict. I'm not a modder but I've played with them long enough to realize that if they are modding the same bits of information for similar mods, that is when they can potentially conflict. Conflicting could be anything from one of them will not work to the whole game crashes when you perform that action. Keeping gameplay stuff out of CC Magic and keeping similar gameplay mod things together helps you spot the problem whenever something comes up. Usually just removing the item (or one of the conflicting ones) fixes the game for me. Sometimes I also have to clear caches.

In MY Mods folder I have all Skins, Sims, all NRAAS stuff, all DouglasViega, CMAR, Shimrod and Twoftmama stuff , all Sliders and any other Hacked/Modded stuff.
Also if CC Magic crashes on you while trying to move or work with a file, do a computer search for that file (or find it in CC Magic/Content) and move it manually to Legacy(Mods) or delete it. So far that has worked every time for me as far as CC magic crashes. CC magic has problems moving things to and from legacy. That makes sense since CC Magic doesn't process or do anything with items outside of the default (downloads) folder.
I have heard it has problems with Patterns and Lots but I have not experienced this. I do occasionally get the materializing materials notice, but that is all. I can move the patterns around within CC magic and the patterns still show up in game as do the lots. I have never tried to use cc magic on store stuff, but I do have store stuff content in the cc magic/content/store sims 3 packs folder. Go figure.

Hope this helps someone. :p

I have the same Problem

Thank you so much for this! It is so easy to use and has made my game significantly faster! <3

Using CC Magic in non-english or custom configurations:

1. move the "The Sims 3" CC Magic created out of "..\Documents\Electronic Arts"
2. open windows console
3. cd to "..\Documents\Electronic Arts" folder
4. mklink /J "The Sims 3" "Die Sims 3" <-- path to folder your installation is actual using goes here

*Be aware that this is NOT a copy but just a second name for the SAME folder. If you delete or copy something into one of the twins, it will also be changed in the other.

hi idk if i allowed to ask here or no but
i just moved my old user sims 3 files from my old computer to the new and and used the cc magic (because i used it back then) so the ccs would appear in the game in my new device
but apparently some are not.

and when i checked the legacy it said some files are missing.
i checked the content in the sims 3 folder.they're still there.
what do i do?thank you

I installed what was said for it to work. cc magic didn't detect any of my sims 3 packs in ebc or dbc of dccache files & it didn't detect my .package cc files that's in my mods packages folder & then all the sudden a pop up message........cc magic has stopped working. Now how am I going to organize my millions of content?..............PLEASE HELP

thanks

I cannot get this to work properly with my game setup. I recently did a fresh install, this time using Origin to install my game. When I launch CC magic, I don't get any of the icons for the EPs or SPs at the bottom, and when I try to launch the game, I get a message that CC Magic has stopped working.

I hope someone can help me. I downloaded from the exchange, it didn't install so I used CC magic.. and well... I have some "bad" cc, that I can't find in the game launcher, I don't know how to remove it.

Honestly, if you can't find it visit http://sims3.crinrict.com/badcc/en/BadCC_Clothing.html to see if its any of these. If not, I would say uninstall everything in your launcher and reinstall it with CC Magic and go through everything slowly till you find it. A pain in the ass for sure, but this is probably your best bet.

This is a wonderful program, and I was wondering...

Is there a way to backup, export and save all the organization I've done with CC Magic?

I'm going to be wiping my hard drive and am in the process of backing everything up. It would be super awesome to not have to start over from scratch.

Thanks!

Also, just so you know, the 'Get Help' and 'Support Development' buttons on CC Magic both say "This site can't be reached."

do you plan on doing an updated fresher looking version of cc magic? ive noticed the packages i try to disable dont become disabled.

I installed three nraas mods -Whoohooer, Portrait Panel, Mover. For some reason they won't appear in game. I put the package files in my downloads and did a rebuild but they wont show up in game, they do show up in cc magic though. I have a couple other nraas mods installed that work perfectly but I installed them before i used cc magic.
Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with cc magic?

Also if there is better place to post this please tell me

Mods have to be put in the packages folder. CCMagic does not handle Mods.
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...Setup_and_Files

We have a help section. http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=551

With Origin, you get automatically patched to 1.69. CCMagic doesn't work with it as a launcher. You will have to launch with the EA launcher. You can still organize and merge your CC with it.

Would you please like to tell me why I just spend hours chattign with other cc-magic users, trying a thousand things, ruining my folder only to find out ccmagic just doesn't work for a completely legal-bought Dutch Sims 3 game? Why? Was it too difficult to make the program recognize games that aren't 'the sims 3' but, like in my case, ' de sims 3' instead?

I litterally tried EVERYTHING, to the point even extremely experienced ccmagic users didn't know what the hell to do.