I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue: I've had Ambitions and the Ultimate Career Bundle for quite a while now. I'm pretty sure all was working fine in the past but I haven't used the inventing bench in a while and now when I do I'm unable to invent the two items that were included in the Ultimate Career Bundle. The items are the claw dipper and the air bender. My sim will do the animation of inventing and act like they've completed an invention but the item isn't there and doesn't show up in their inventory (personal or family). I noticed that the items are available in buydebug like the other inventions. When I used Nraas debug enabler mod on the workbench to learn all the inventions there are two options under widgets that only show how much scrap is required to make the item but no item name and if I choose either of those two options my sim goes through the motions of making something but no item is created. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the bundle but it doesn't help.
I haven't checked to see if my sim can sculpt the sculpting items from the bundle yet, but I know the CAS items from the bundle are available.
Anyway, any thoughts or ideas on how to fix this are appreciated.
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Another strange thing I noticed recently involves the pet store that came with the Pets Limited Edition expansion pack. I've never had a problem with it at all but last time I placed it in a game and sent a sim to buy something the special pet items were not available to buy through the pet store cash register. They were, however, still showing up inside the pet store (on display). So they are in the game just not available to purchase with the cash register. Something weird is definitely going on. I wonder if I somehow deleted some other important file somewhere while cleaning up my documents folder.
I'll have to compare my old backups with my current folder and see if something is missing.
Otherwise, the pet shop not working makes me think your ccmerged.package might be corrupt. It's necessary to make premium store items function correctly. I'm not sure whether the Ultimate Career Bundle functions as premium content, but the pet shop cash register does. You can rebuild your own ccmerged by downloading all of your premium content and these two items into a clean game folder, then just replacing your old ccmerged with the newly generated one. Or you can skip all that work and download this file from NonaSims:
https://nonasims.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/dcbackup-ccmerged-package-and-your-premium-content-items/
Be sure to test the content in a clean game folder, just to make sure it's working. And, of course, delete your cache files before proceeding.
If rebuilding or replacing your ccmerged doesn't help, you likely have a corrupt .ebc file in DCCache. If you were reinstalling the content into that file, it would probably continue to not work properly. You could uninstall the Ultimate Career Bundle and pet store from your game folder and then reinstall them into a clean game folder. Then take your new .ebc file and rename it so that it's numbered one higher than the highest in your existing game folder (so if those are dcdb0.ebc through dcdb4.ebc, rename your new one dcdb5.ebc). Place this file in DCCache in your old game folder, grab the Library file that corresponds to the pet shop itself, put your old folder back in Documents\EA, and test things out.
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