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    Anyone Else Having Problems Since Today's Patch?

    GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
    edited August 2021 in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    I would just like to ask because my mods wouldn't enable, first off. Upon inspection there were no mods in my mods folder! Changing the name slightly isn't the same as pulling said file. Luckily, I have a copy from the most recent time I backed up my entire Sims 4 folder. (The patch prior to today's.) Phew! I really hated the thought of having to run down all of that 18th century cc stuff. I have them all divided up nicely into separate folders, too. That was a bit of a chore. But all of it was gone. Gone, gone, I say! I found the slightly older mods folder and slid them into my game. Actually just outside of my Electronic Arts folder in documents. I went into the game and changed the type of lot a certain venue was, switching it from Generic (where sadly you can't hold weddings — they don't show up in the Event category). Game wouldn't save. All of that work and it wouldn't save. I did a folder refresh, still no luck. I then did a repair game, leaving my Mods folder where I had placed it. Tried a brief test with a Sim that came up in CAS, just to make sure. I was able to enable mods. Cool. So, I went back and replaced the saves, Tray, and I thought I'd replaced the Mods, too, but I thought I could use the move to function, but my folder went nowhere!

    That's when I started opening up the older Sims4 folders on my desktop and found the one marked May 2021. There I discovered the Mods folder will all of the updated mods, yay. (Guess I just have to scare myself every now and again, get that adrenaline going. Keep the ol' girl alive, you know.) Still managed to forget to place it back into the brand new Sims4 folder! It's days like this I wonder how I got out of bed safely. :open_mouth: I'm beat, I admit it. Tired is not a good thing. I don't wear it well. Finally, got that all sorted out. I went in to make all of those changes again to the venue. This time it saved. Yay! Decided to play Rotation lot 3. I have only one Sim day left before I head off to the next lot. Erik's lot, of course. Will the game let me into the lot? NO! It bounces me right back to the main screen with all the worlds visible to choose from.

    I'm basically done for the day. Hopefully, when I power up my game tomorrow, all of this nightmare will be over. I placed his new home in the vicinity of his siblings, yesterday. But, he's got a World Tour and likely won't move in there quite yet. We'll see. That all depends on whether or not the game will let me IN.

    I hate patches. I really do. Mind you, I had some of this going on without the mods enabled, so I'm hard-pressed to think that's the problem. Not only that, but the last go-around the dern Mods folder was still in my documents file … What to do with me? :D:|:/:#
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      LynnPlayz1LynnPlayz1 Posts: 548 Member
      Oh dear. I haven't updated yet, but I'm definitely going make a copy of my mods fold now. I hope that everything gets sorted out.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
      edited August 2021
      LynnPlayz1 wrote: »
      Oh dear. I haven't updated yet, but I'm definitely going make a copy of my mods fold now. I hope that everything gets sorted out.

      I took a fresh look at the contents in my Mods folder this morning. The MCCC mod sometimes has a Last Exception that it throws, but keeps inside the MCCC Folder. There is a way to check what it's all about. Seems I had about five duplicates, so that prompted me to look at all the mod folders I have. Although, the one duplicate I found wasn't the mod listed, I can't help but think this could have caused the misfiring of the game, as it were. I then went about verifying if all of these mods were still considered compatible and I downloaded the newest copy of MCCC; Mortem; and double-checked Private Practice and the entire SNB (Sims National Bank) system. I should be good to go, but we'll see how it works today.
      Thanks for your response. I feel less lonely, now. :)
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      Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,334 Member

      I was actually quite pleasantly surprised that there was no problems. (other than lag while the game reintegrated)

      I have a love-hate relationship with patches. Heh heh! ;)
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
      Admiral8Q wrote: »
      I was actually quite pleasantly surprised that there was no problems. (other than lag while the game reintegrated)

      I have a love-hate relationship with patches. Heh heh! ;)
      If I were a Pirate though... hmm? :D

      Yeah, I was able to play my game yesterday. So glad, too, that my Sims are no longer zipping about the lot as they were previously. Seems I had some problems in my Mods folder. Wasn't the patch at fault this time. My bad. Please, let me know when I can come out of Time-out. ;)
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      WaytoomanyUIDsWaytoomanyUIDs Posts: 845 Member
      Thanks for reminding me to back up my Sims 4 folder, havent done it for a couple months.
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      FurAndYarnFurAndYarn Posts: 459 Member
      Thankfully this was a painless patch for me... sorry to hear it was problematic for others.

      I have gotten in the habit of backing up my mods, saves, and tray folder before every patch day, but I had also just deleted my entire mods folder a few days ago and started anew. Certainly glad I didn't have issues, because I didn't know about this most recent patch and hadn't backed up the mod folder I had been creating over the last several days. Whew!
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
      Yeah, my first mistake was simply modifying the name of my Mods folder. Big, as in Ginormous, mistake! My mods and cc were all gone. Which is why when enabled it wouldn't stay that way, I'm guessing. And once I found a Mods folder in my prior copy of my Game Folder dated May 2021, the enabled mods stuck. Then after my trial of a brand new game save worked, for some odd reason, the Mods folder wasn't in the Game folder. I pray I'm not slowly losing my faculties! I saved the game, once I was back in. This is where Erik lost his albums, written songs and a bunch of other stuff. I placed the Mod folder back into my game where it belonged, rolled back to what was the very last save from Uni, to rescue Erik and Kayleigh. (I have no desire to go back one. more. time. and restart him as a Teen.) This worked, except his family was no longer living in Henford-on-Bagley. I finally made a good decision in all that tumult. I uploaded this couple to My Library. Then I went back into the game game to the the Rotation-3 lot. This is where the game decided to not let me in. The next morning, I took a look at things and realized I had two versions of the very same mod. Removed the older one, reinstalled anew some of the other ones and voila! My game is saved.
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      Admiral8QAdmiral8Q Posts: 3,334 Member
      Another update/patch today? Or is that just Origin?
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
      Admiral8Q wrote: »
      Another update/patch today? Or is that just Origin?

      No it was another patch. See the notes.
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      Sunflowergal227Sunflowergal227 Posts: 305 Member
      I updated and saw no problems. don't play with mods either.
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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 28,742 Member
      Sunflowergal227 wrote: »
      I updated and saw no problems. don't play with mods either.

      Yeah, as I have already stated, the fault lies with me. I'm the one who had two of the very same mod in my Mods folder. This was the cause of my woes. Once I saw this and deleted the older copy of said mod, the game is working fine again. Yay! I don't blame the use of mods, in this case it was Operator Malfunction. :open_mouth:
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      SayNoToGnomesSayNoToGnomes Posts: 44 Member
      I've not had any noticeable problems as such, but I have noticed that three Get to Work fence panels are now showing for §0 in the indoor activities tab in buy mode :D
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