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Old 05-15-2008, 11:49 PM   #4
Hokieman
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Sita, 1st thing you have to do is make sure they are orphans. Don't delete them until you do! (personal experience - also Delphy said somewhere that the orphan scan isn't perfect, it will nail some files that do have meshes). My experience though is that it's pretty accurate with orphan meshes but not the clothing recolors.

Move the orphans to a separate directory to isolate them.

While you're at it if you already haven't done this. Isolate all the body and clothing meshes into a separate folder.

Then create a new empty game and either move or copy the orphan and mesh folders to the downloads folder (hopefully you're running an expansion pack beyond nightlife - if not then directly to the downloads folder).

Load the empty game and go to CAS. Then, check them one by one by seeing if the maniquin changes clothes. If the thumbnail shows up as a maxis outfit then you don't have a mesh loaded usually. Check them anyway since, for some reason, sometimes the thumbnail doesn't show properly. If you don't see a non-default outfit, then you don't have the mesh installed. If it does change, then you do. If you do find some that do display properly, then make a note of the description so you can dig them out of the directory later.

If you don't want to keep the orphans in the hopes of someday finding a mesh, then you can delete them right there in CAS.

To isolate the good recolors, go back to DDO and scan the folder where you put the orphans and move the ones with the desciptions you noted above to a new folder and then you can store what's left elsewhere.
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