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''The Sims'', ''The Sims 2'', and ''The Sims 3'' do not recognize archive files and cannot read them. While it appears that ''The Sims 4'' does recognize zip files in the Mods folder, it also appears to expect anything in them to be part of a script mod. Therefore, when downloading any Sims content other than a script mod for ''The Sims 4'', the archive files should '''not''' be downloaded to any game folder, but can be downloaded to any non-program folder the player chooses. Also, it is not necessary to keep the archive files once the custom content files have been extracted; they can be deleted or moved to an external storage device such as a thumb drive.
Windows and OS X can extract from zip files (which Windows may call "compressed folders"), but users will need a separate program to extract from RAR or 7z files. There are many programs which can extract from archive files, and most can extract from zip, RAR, and 7z files.<ref>The zip and 7z formats are open. RAR decompression is open, though RAR compression is proprietary.</ref><ref>Version 5.0 of WinRAR, released in September 2013, introduced a new version of the RAR format called RAR5. Older software will not recognize this new format, and will not be able to open RAR files that use it.</ref> Prices and licenses vary, from commercial, to nagware, to free or open-source.<!-- Please do not edit this guide to make recommendations, as that might be considered an endorsement by The Sims Wiki. If you want to make recommendations, please use the talk page. -->
==Identifying file types==
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