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    WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
    in The Sims 3 Mac Discussion
    I downloaded three hairtyles from peggy zone and they won't show up on my sims but I still see the pictures. My sims come out bald instead. Please help me?

    Also the game won't load when I use the teen pregnancy and marriage mods.

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      unsecretcrushunsecretcrush Posts: 1,029 New Member
      edited July 2009
      Mod stuff seems to be a little messed up after the patch that was released tuesday. Check with the place you got your mods from and see if they say anything about patch compatibility or if they have released updates since you first downloaded them.

      I'm having the same problem with peggyzone hair and I cannot figure out why. I got them working normally post-patch for all of ten minutes before I did something to break them again. :( Modded clothes or accessories are working fine, it's just the hair. I'm not sure it's necessarily patch related since others have reported no problems with their hairstyles.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited July 2009
      I got the preggers mods working. DANG HAIR!
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      kae95kae95 Posts: 23 New Member
      edited July 2009
      i have problems with the hair too they go bald :(
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      unsecretcrushunsecretcrush Posts: 1,029 New Member
      edited July 2009
      I did some stuff yesterday and was able to bring back my hairstyles. No idea what exactly worked. Some of it might have just been voodoo, like removing the hairstyle files and then putting them back. I wish I had kept track of what exactly I did, maybe it would work for you.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Yeah, that worked. Well.. I started the game after I removed it the quit and put it back then it worked.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      And now it's not working again! My sims are all bald! :(
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      KittenKatKatyKittenKatKaty Posts: 6 New Member
      edited August 2009
      So it's not just me then? I'm having the same issues; they worked just fine before the 1.4 patch, and now all the sudden they show up as bald in game. I tried deleting, re-downloading, all of my .package and my resource.cfg and still just bald :( Fail. How frustrating, especially with all of the new CC popping up now :/ I only have CC hair, but I'll try some clothes and see if I have any issues tomorrow.
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      unsecretcrushunsecretcrush Posts: 1,029 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Nope, it's not just you; See here and here

      I had really hoped someone would have been able to figure this out by now. It's kind of killing my interest in the game, along with how slow everything seems to be going now ever since I patched to 1.4. I'll load it up once or twice a day to see if my ladies are going to have hair today, but then I only play for maybe 10-15 minutes before I get bored and/or fed up.

      I'm almost to the point of trying a fresh install, if I can figure out how to get back to the 1.2 update. But what I've been reading indicates that that might not be possible for Mac unless you backed up the whole game (program files and all) before installing 1.3, which of course I did not.
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      PurpleAmharicBunaPurpleAmharicBuna Posts: 624 New Member
      edited August 2009
      I haven't patched yet, because I have run out of bandwidth (due to watching cartoons for my course homework)
      I would like to see a return of the customisable tool they had in The Sims 2, where I would create Ethiopian-inspired outfits offline.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      No, it's working again.
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      CourtneyyoxCourtneyyox Posts: 1 New Member
      edited August 2009
      I'm having the same problem, i have installed the patch 1.4, but it's done nothing, my custom hair(.package, .sim3pack works fine) still won't show up, while everything else does.
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      Ripley07Ripley07 Posts: 6 New Member
      edited August 2009
      unsecretcrush wrote:
      I'm almost to the point of trying a fresh install, if I can figure out how to get back to the 1.2 update. But what I've been reading indicates that that might not be possible for Mac unless you backed up the whole game (program files and all) before installing 1.3, which of course I did not.


      If you do figure out how to get back to 1.2, please let us know. I have been searching since patch 1.3 and haven't found anything yet. I also really wish I had known to back up my game before that patch...
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      unsecretcrushunsecretcrush Posts: 1,029 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Well, i can tell you just reinstalling from the disc won't do it. I was immediately prompted to first update the Launcher (why they shipped a broken Mac version of the Launcher I'll never understand) and then immediately prompted again to install "a new update," but there was no mention of a version number or anything. So I did the whole reinstall process only to end up with the exact same version as before. At least it wasn't that much of a hassle, in the long run.
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      Ripley07Ripley07 Posts: 6 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Yep, yep, I tried that too. It installs just the newest patch :(

      I love my mac, but I wish I had gotten Sims for windows. I'm finding the patch for windows all over the place!
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      It works on windows with the same disk. EDIT: I'm not talking about the hair, but the Sims 3 windows and Mac version are on the same disc

      My game has gone he same as Courtneyox.

      Everything else shows up except for the hair. Now matter how may times I take out the mods, start the game, quit the game, put the mods back in, and start the game, they don't work.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      It was working yesterday though :O
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      unsecretcrushunsecretcrush Posts: 1,029 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Ripley07 wrote:
      Yep, yep, I tried that too. It installs just the newest patch :(

      I love my mac, but I wish I had gotten Sims for windows. I'm finding the patch for windows all over the place!

      If you have the retail disc and access to a Windows machine (or Boot Camp set up on your Mac) you can play Sims for Windows right now. Of course if you can do that you probably don't need to backtrack to the older patch since I don't think any Windows user has been having this same issue we are with the new patches.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      If you reinstall, does that delete everything?
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      ScraverXScraverX Posts: 762 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Windows Users are having their own set of problems.
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      Ripley07Ripley07 Posts: 6 New Member
      edited August 2009
      unsecretcrush wrote:
      If you have the retail disc and access to a Windows machine (or Boot Camp set up on your Mac) you can play Sims for Windows right now. Of course if you can do that you probably don't need to backtrack to the older patch since I don't think any Windows user has been having this same issue we are with the new patches.

      Thanks. Unfortunately for me, I bought my game online (from GameTree), so I only got the Mac version. I saw the game in the store and realized if I had just gone to the store to buy it then I could load it on our PC. Then I kicked myself, haha! Oh well!
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      Ripley07Ripley07 Posts: 6 New Member
      edited August 2009
      WhiteRoses, I reinstalled and still have my sims. I deleted The Sims 3 from the Applications folder & the game saved my stuff under Documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 3. I did back up CC before I reinstalled though.
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      WhiteRosesWhiteRoses Posts: 82 New Member
      edited August 2009
      Cool. Thanks.
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