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    Switching to a New Computer

    freakingoddessfreakingoddess Posts: 253 New Member
    in The Sims 3 General Discussion
    I just bought a new computer and I wanted to transfer all my saved games over. I copied all the relevant files and added them to the files on my new computer. When I opened the game, I could see my riverview there but it said I couldn't open it because it was saved with an expansion I no longer had. I realized that it must be because riverview was not downloaded. So I downloaded riverview, and opened it again, and now I don't even see riverview in the cue to select my saves. Any ideas what happened/how I can find my riverview saved game??

    Thanks!

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      zorba2357zorba2357 Posts: 6,103 Member
      edited September 2010
      I have no clue. If I were you I would post this in "Tech" forums , right under this one, which is "General".

      edit: silly question, you said you downloaded riverview, did you also Install it?
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      Biotic_WarlockBiotic_Warlock Posts: 11,063 Member
      edited September 2010
      freakingoddess wrote:
      I just bought a new computer and I wanted to transfer all my saved games over. I copied all the relevant files and added them to the files on my new computer. When I opened the game, I could see my riverview there but it said I couldn't open it because it was saved with an expansion I no longer had. I realized that it must be because riverview was not downloaded. So I downloaded riverview, and opened it again, and now I don't even see riverview in the cue to select my saves. Any ideas what happened/how I can find my riverview saved game??

      Thanks!

      are the games on both machines the same version>?
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      secretuk1965secretuk1965 Posts: 5,341 Member
      edited September 2010
      did you download riverview and install while to store mode? if so you will need to reboot the game for your saves to work again.

      allso if you only downloaded riverview you will have to install via the launcher
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      SkewedReality04SkewedReality04 Posts: 1,450 Member
      edited September 2010
      It sounds like you may just have to start from scratch, which isn't always bad. It can be kind of exciting.
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      freakingoddessfreakingoddess Posts: 253 New Member
      edited September 2010
      Thanks-I finally got it to work after a combination of things, however now I am having other troubles! Thanks for the help though.
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