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UNDELETABLE STORE COLLECTION FOLDERS BUG MADE WORSE WITH PATCH 1.63
ZeekSlider
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UPDATE! THE STORE TEAM KNOWS ABOUT THE BUG NOW!!
I recently had to reinstall my entire Sims 3 collection on a new, fancy computer. When I went to check if everything from my back-up transferred correctly, I noticed that I had not one, not two, but FOUR undeletable collection folders in my Collection tab of Build/Buy Mode. If you go through this thread, you'll discover that these folders don't contain all the assets from the sets/venues that they were created for.
Today, I went looking for the Country Livin' mini-collection you could use in Buy Mode if you have the option to have the Store on while in your game. (Or in my case, even while you have that option turned off... :roll: ) That's when I noticed something even more interesting.
The mini collection I previously had to help me find, sort, and locate all the items in the Country Livin' set had vanished! The items were still there, but that little mini-collection wasn't.
I think what is going on with this bug is that something is messing up within the game itself. Whenever a new EP/SP is installed (as was the original case) or if the data is transferred from a back-up (which is my current case), there's something in the launcher that causes some of the DLC sets to be confused as incomplete collection folders.
The only way to fix this is with another Store Patch. This time, however, make it so that these mini-collections that come up when you buy a set or venue from the store don't break and create undeleteable folders in the Collection area. (You can't delete the mini-collections in Sort by Room unless you uninstall the DLC.) I don't know if anyone is left on the TS3 Store team who could do this, since the focus is now on TS4, but maybe a modder will see this and fix it for us?
In the mean time, the best that I can do is just "delete" those folders temporarily in the game so that my Collections folder is a little neater during that game play session.
!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!
I did a test today, and it looks like I'm right. It does have to do with the Store Collection feature they gave us when you sort your Buy Objects by Room.
When I uninstalled my DLC, the Undeleteable Collection Folders went away. I slowly installed all my DLC all over again, and noticed that the two sets and two venues I have installed the collection folders again as I reinstalled them. Interestingly enough, all the items still showed up in Build/Buy mode.
The four DLC packs for my game are as follows:
Stones Throw Greenhouse
The Duke of Bows Renaissance Faire
Country Livin'
Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
If anyone else is seeing this issue, please report it. Hopefully something will be done to fix this before the final patch is released and we find ourselves on our own.
!!!!!PATCH 1.63 UPDATE!!!!!
This bug absolutely EXPLODED when I installed this new patch. Here's a complete list of the new sets that I now have to delete from my Collection tab thanks to this bug.
Luxe Kidswear
Dreams of India
JetSet Teens
Fanciful Fashions & Hairstyle
JetSet
The Coffee Bean Hipster Loft
Runway Riot
JetSet Elders
Victorian Fashions
Ragtime in the Big Easy
Romanza Bridal Party
Wild Wears
This needs to get fixed. This is getting annoying for my OCD.
UPDATE NOV. 1, 2013
Got some more sets showing up as incomplete/empty Collection folders. Here's the new ones:
Grim's Manor
Farm Fresh Folk Set
Skylight Studios for the Performing Arts
Business as Usual Bistro
Surf's Up Fun and Sun Collection
UPDATE NOV. 8, 2013
*sigh* Grandpa's Grove automatically added itself to this growing list of sets being shoved into the collection folder area.
UPDATE JAN. 31, 2014
Add the Year of the Horse set to my list of sets that show up in the Collection tab...
UPDATE FEB. 4, 2014 (AKA The Sims 14th Birthday!)
And the Homecoming CAS set I was gifted in celebration of The Sims' 14th Birthday has added itself to the ever-growing list...
UPDATE FEB. 6, 2014
The Prism Art School has added itself to my list as well... :roll: This is starting to become quite the annoying end to an already frustrating chapter in The Sims franchise.
I recently had to reinstall my entire Sims 3 collection on a new, fancy computer. When I went to check if everything from my back-up transferred correctly, I noticed that I had not one, not two, but FOUR undeletable collection folders in my Collection tab of Build/Buy Mode. If you go through this thread, you'll discover that these folders don't contain all the assets from the sets/venues that they were created for.
Today, I went looking for the Country Livin' mini-collection you could use in Buy Mode if you have the option to have the Store on while in your game. (Or in my case, even while you have that option turned off... :roll: ) That's when I noticed something even more interesting.
The mini collection I previously had to help me find, sort, and locate all the items in the Country Livin' set had vanished! The items were still there, but that little mini-collection wasn't.
I think what is going on with this bug is that something is messing up within the game itself. Whenever a new EP/SP is installed (as was the original case) or if the data is transferred from a back-up (which is my current case), there's something in the launcher that causes some of the DLC sets to be confused as incomplete collection folders.
The only way to fix this is with another Store Patch. This time, however, make it so that these mini-collections that come up when you buy a set or venue from the store don't break and create undeleteable folders in the Collection area. (You can't delete the mini-collections in Sort by Room unless you uninstall the DLC.) I don't know if anyone is left on the TS3 Store team who could do this, since the focus is now on TS4, but maybe a modder will see this and fix it for us?
In the mean time, the best that I can do is just "delete" those folders temporarily in the game so that my Collections folder is a little neater during that game play session.
!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!
I did a test today, and it looks like I'm right. It does have to do with the Store Collection feature they gave us when you sort your Buy Objects by Room.
When I uninstalled my DLC, the Undeleteable Collection Folders went away. I slowly installed all my DLC all over again, and noticed that the two sets and two venues I have installed the collection folders again as I reinstalled them. Interestingly enough, all the items still showed up in Build/Buy mode.
The four DLC packs for my game are as follows:
Stones Throw Greenhouse
The Duke of Bows Renaissance Faire
Country Livin'
Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
If anyone else is seeing this issue, please report it. Hopefully something will be done to fix this before the final patch is released and we find ourselves on our own.
!!!!!PATCH 1.63 UPDATE!!!!!
This bug absolutely EXPLODED when I installed this new patch. Here's a complete list of the new sets that I now have to delete from my Collection tab thanks to this bug.
Luxe Kidswear
Dreams of India
JetSet Teens
Fanciful Fashions & Hairstyle
JetSet
The Coffee Bean Hipster Loft
Runway Riot
JetSet Elders
Victorian Fashions
Ragtime in the Big Easy
Romanza Bridal Party
Wild Wears
This needs to get fixed. This is getting annoying for my OCD.
UPDATE NOV. 1, 2013
Got some more sets showing up as incomplete/empty Collection folders. Here's the new ones:
Grim's Manor
Farm Fresh Folk Set
Skylight Studios for the Performing Arts
Business as Usual Bistro
Surf's Up Fun and Sun Collection
UPDATE NOV. 8, 2013
*sigh* Grandpa's Grove automatically added itself to this growing list of sets being shoved into the collection folder area.
UPDATE JAN. 31, 2014
Add the Year of the Horse set to my list of sets that show up in the Collection tab...
UPDATE FEB. 4, 2014 (AKA The Sims 14th Birthday!)
And the Homecoming CAS set I was gifted in celebration of The Sims' 14th Birthday has added itself to the ever-growing list...
UPDATE FEB. 6, 2014
The Prism Art School has added itself to my list as well... :roll: This is starting to become quite the annoying end to an already frustrating chapter in The Sims franchise.
Original Post wrote:After installing Island Paradise, I noticed that I have three collection folders from Store DLC that I can't delete. (Those items are already in their own folders, so the duplicated folders are annoying.)
Specifically, I have a collection folder for the Ren. Faire venue, the Greenhouse venue, and the Lullaby set.
These three folders in the Collections menu CANNOT BE DELETED! Every time I delete them, they just pop back up again when I load my game again.
Am I the only one that has come across this bug or does anyone else have this issue as well?
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Yes, I cannot delete them, either. I think it's great that they made them for us, but we should be able to delete them if we don't want them. Not happy about that.
It wouldn't be so bad if the collections they've given us actually contain all the items that they should.
If so, what happens if you delete the three files from that folder? Do they just regenerate or are they gone forever?
Does anyone on what remains of the Sims 3 developer team know about this bug and can issue a fix? It's getting annoying how I have to delete these folders but they won't stay deleted.
Agreed.
When I uninstalled my DLC, the Undeleteable Collection Folders went away. I slowly installed all my DLC all over again, and noticed that the two sets and two venues I have installed the collection folders again as I reinstalled them. Interestingly enough, all the items still showed up in Build/Buy mode.
The four DLC packs for my game are as follows:
Stones Throw Greenhouse
The Duke of Bows Renaissance Faire
Country Livin'
Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes
If anyone else is seeing this issue, please report it. Hopefully something will be done to fix this before the final patch is released and we find ourselves on our own.
OK, that's bad. EA Store Team, please look into this. We have a real glitch, here. In the future, the store will not need to market all its wares, but our game will stay glitched for posterity, if this is not fixed, now.
That's the thing, I don't know if it can be fixed. The issue popped up for me and several others after Island Paradise was released, and with Into the Future being so close now, this may be the last patch we get once that EP comes out. Even the second patch to IP didn't fix several of the big game-busting bugs like the resetting Underwater Caves cause.
Yup, those are precisely the two that constantly re-appear in my game; I can't get rid of them.
It's annoying, cuz I already have my own collection folders for all my Store content. If EA had made collection folders for their store stuff AS SOON AS THE ABILITY WENT LIVE, then I wouldn't care, you know? That's what we were ASKING for them to do, and they just ignored everyone. Then when they DID start making their collections, it was some craziness in Buy Mode just glaring all golden at the corners of our screen. I don't like the way they work since those loads very slowly, and the window doesn't stay open for my convenience while I'm picking and choosing. So yeah--kinda useless.
So we simmers went at it so long having to Do It Yourself that I'm now used to my personalized collections, especially since EA's are flawed and don't even include everything. :roll:
It's just a little too late in the game to start shoving glitchy collection folders down people's throats. We've got tons of Store collection file creators already, who've pretty much catalogued the entire store FOR YOU, EA. BadRomance999, AznSensei, and my angel MrHawk pummel out collections on the regular. Thanks for the effort, EA, but they've got it covered.
Please concentrate on fixing more important things at the Store, like the broken fountains/hottubs, and wall objects that STILL don't slide on walls, and all the missing stencils on nearly EVERYTHING you've created (omg I hate EA for that ALONE, lol), and that daggone Storybook mantle clock that can't actually sit on any mantles.
If you want to fix something, fix that Launcher already.
This bug absolutely EXPLODED when I installed this new patch. Here's a complete list of the new sets that I now have to delete from my Collection tab thanks to this bug.
Luxe Kidswear
Dreams of India
JetSet Teens
Fanciful Fashions & Hairstyle
JetSet
The Coffee Bean Hipster Loft
Runway Riot
JetSet Elders
Victorian Fashions
Ragtime in the Big Easy
Romanza Bridal Party
Wild Wears
This needs to get fixed. This is getting annoying for my OCD.
I use collections folders almost exclusively for my content while building and redecorating. I do not want to have all these collections I can't move or delete in front of what I do want to use.
This will be a DAILY irritation for me. Please do something to remove these collection folders, or fix the glitch.
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I find that hard to believe. I own a good chunk of the store, and with all my saved games and custom lots and what-not... my Sims 3 folder is 21 gigs. The DCCache folder alone is 4.1GB.
The Collection Folder is barely 1MB, the bulk of which is taken up with user created Collection folders that the game saves as package files. There are some SIG files in that folder as well, but the dates they were last modified are the same dates when I first installed a specific EP or SP. That means that the SIG files may just be the collection folders created by EA for things like the horse set for Pets or the furniture associated with France for WA.
This is my fav feature, because I don't care to make/download manual collections
If you do that, don't you uninstall all the items in that particular set? That's how it used to work when I had to do the manual uninstall through the launcher in the past. These days, if I have to reinstall anything, I just delete the DCCache folder. (FYI, doing that doesn't fix this bug. I tried that after I noticed I had four undeletable collection folders.)