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The town I'm playing is missing, I need help in getting it to show
LaBlue0314
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I was playing Pleasantview earlier this evening, and had to stop to take care of some things. After I got those finished I went back into my game to play my family, but on the menu where you can choose which town you want to play, Pleasantview is not there. So I went into my Neighborhood folder, and the file N001 is there with all the necessary stuff in it. I went ahead and did a repair, but that has not resolved this issue. Is there anything else I can do to get this world to show up on the menu so I can play it?
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When you left the game, were you in the neighbourhood view?
If so, the town you are playing does not show - only the others.
First I will save my game, and then exit to the neighborhood view. Once in the neighborhood view I will quit my game. This is the first time this has ever happened to me like this.
If that doesn't work, try deleting NeighborhoodManager.package. It's related to neighborhoods and the game will generate a new one when you load up the game.
I haven't been playing this game save very long.
It didn't work.
Corruption can reach end stage quickly. Have you done anything on the list FearlessButterfly posted? If so, it may be worth deciding if you want to just restart Pleasantview or try to fix it and hope it doesn't get worse again before you're ready to restart it.
I did go through that list, and I didn't do anything that was mentioned.
My CC is up to about 4GBs now... I wish there wasn't so much Cool CC now (or that I've gotten so tired of their clothes).
In doing some research it does appear that neighborhoods disappearing is a sign of neighborhood corruption (and so corrupted the game no longer recognizes it) or corruption of the neighborhoodmanager.package file. Whether the corruption is due to in game actions or random corruption is unknown in this case.
Oh, sure. I'm not saying it's not. I've corrupted a few neighborhoods- usually from adding Sims with friends/families from other neighborhoods thinking I did it right. I'm just adding my opinion.
So I have had a legacy going for a couple years on a custom neighbourhood (N004) in ~/library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/ etc.
Yesterday, my laptop ran out of battery whilst I was playing, I charged it up a few hours later, loaded Sims 2 and went to play on my neighbourhood but it had completely vanished. It appears that all the files are still intact in my documents. Is there anything I can do? Haven't backed it up for about 100 hours of playing, so all is not lost but I'm pretty heartbroken about it!
Also I've read through the neighbourhood corruption page on wiki and pretty certain I've not done any of those things, I don't use any cheats full stop - only thing I can remember is when a pet's urn got knocked off a bedside table and that was probably 5/6 months ago!
All advice welcome...
Thank you, Charlotte
If you don't have the mod nounlinkondelete, the pet's urn being smashed did technically corrupt the neighborhood. If you had absolutely no symptoms of corruption: improper wants (children who wish to woohoo), children/toddlers with LTW's other than Grow Up, etc, then I would find it odd that the game jumped straight to end game corruption status (not able to load the neighborhood).
And even after you get this issue resolved, as long as you take frequent back ups and keep more than one version, the neighborhood being corrupted shouldn't cause you to immediately have to ditch the neighborhood. There are people who have managed to play a neighborhood for 10+ years having done things that cause corruption. And there are also people who have it happen really quickly.