So I figured EVERYONE should be able to download from the Store using this method. You must have Firefox installed for it to work (and it is SO simple):
1) Open Firefox and go to the item you want to download from the Store
2) Click on Download
3) A window will pop up asking you to choose what program to use for the download
4) Navigate to Applications then The Sims 3 folder then choose World Adventures
5) Voila! This will now install into your World Adventures Launcher.
Hope this helps everyone, apologies if someone has already posted this but I couldn't find a relevant thread
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When I click on download it does not give me the option of what to open it with, it just automatically starts to try to launch sims 3. If you mouse over the icon that pops up it says "not responding".
Oh well, I am just thrilled uninstalling sims 3 and reinstalling worked, so I will worry about my downloads later. Hopefully the 2.2? patch fixes this.
Another way that I saw to have downloads work (for the Exchange atleast)is to download them manually. Under the "Add to Game" part is an option to "Save File." Save the File and then right click to "Get Info."
Go to "Open with:" and then change the application from The Sims™ 3, which is probably the default, to The Sims™ 3 World Adventures. You can then select to change all the files like this one to have WA as the new default.
Sadly this automatically tries to install them and you have to do them one at a time. Otherwise it works for me.
What version of Firefox are you using? Mine's 3.5.5. I have no addons and haven't fiddled with the preferences on it since I downloaded it on Tuesday. Hope you get it working
what i did:
go to prefrences within firefox
find "applications"
scroll down till you see sims3
over on the right click and choose "choose other"
then open up your sims 3 folder and click sims 3 world adventures.
it will automatically save on mac
now your set!
it doesnt work for me, anytime i got to the applications, it will not let me select WA, only sims 3
Denty
Im so happy! For the fist time since I installed Ambitions I can download from the shop whitout having to uninstall all my games first. I had installed Firefox, but it didnt work and I didnt know how to do the settings.
It helped that I reistalled Firefox and made it first choice now.
(If anyone can use this tip: I have created a new admin account just to play Sims in, after my download problems started, and now it finally pays of!)
Thank you!