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Its a love/dislike situation, hopefully it doesn't happen to often.
this is unbelievably annoying..... :? :? :evil:
I have about 5 families that I play with so I am pretty sure you guys can also understand my frustrations. I haven't been playing because I am shattered. I just keep opening the game in the hopes that my games will load but I just quit when I realize they did not.
I am a MacBook Pro user
This just sucks big time. I wanted to try to drag my saves game to the new regenerated one but I guess I can't even do that. remind me not to update the game again.
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OH my goodness, this has happened to me also and I am very mad with it! One day I turned on my computer then went on the sims (I had only just installed some cc sims of the exchange and they came with some pretty awsome stuff so I was very happy about it) and I saw my family's picture and the mum had this hiddieous bob that already come swith the sims 3 and weird makeup thats comes with the game and no the cc makeup! I was, and still is very sad about this, there are still some haistyles (the ones I didn't like) and two eyebrows and some skin colours
So, I went to the launcher and the 'installed content' thingy has the pre made sims there but not all the awsome stuff they came with, just the picture of them!
I recently tried to download fabrics of the exhange onto my sims game and even THAT doesn't work! They install and every thing and they are in my 'installed content' thing but then on the game they are not there, so I look on the launcher again and they arent in the 'installed content' folder!
Every thing seems to go wrong with me, EVERYTHING! I am soooo sad about this and hope some nice person can tell me what I need to do to fix my game! PLEASE (sorry this message is sooooo long)
EDIT:
Update with me. Things aren't as great as I thought. BTW, I'm running Lion 10.7.4. As I mentioned above, I deleted my The Sims 3 Preference folder. For those of you running Lion, it's hidden, so you'll have to find it this way: Go>Go to Folder>~/Library>Preferences and then you should see it.
I dragged the original TS3 Pref folder to the desktop and launched the game generating a new one. Well, all my custom content loaded...that's the awesome part! I was having a problem seeing custom content that the launched said was installed, but wasn't showing up in game. Sims, hairs, all that. However, I soon noticed that other things were missing, like SP and EP that I had downloaded. Like Late Night's new town, Bridgeport, was no longer an option on the main menu. And in the launcher most of the custom content installed said parts were missing the needed SP/EP and therefore would have substitutions. Finally, I dragged the original TS3 Pref folder back into place and booted up my old game. At least it recognized all my SPs and Eps.
It just sucks, real bad, that I currently cannot install any new custom content, via the store or third-party. All my old content shows up though.
If you're talking about custom content, sometimes it doesn't transfer through with the Sim. Sometimes in order to make the Sim look like the picture, you have to track down the CC yourself. If you're talking about Store content from the Exchange, well no, you won't get that unless you had the original object from EA installed.
Is there any one that can help me please its sooooo annoying :evil:
Good luck guys, I know getting your sims to work properly can be extremely frustrating!
PPPPLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE HURRY!
you said there's a check mark that says run 'with' custom content, the only one I'm seeing is the run 'without' custom content. so where is this other one? do I just check the boxes and play the game or what? cause my problem isn't that I'm not seeing some of the custom content in the game it's that I'm not seeing my own creations in the game. Some of the others I'm not seeing as well, but I've gotten to the point that there's no real solution to this problem right now and It wasn't meant for me to have it in my game (I have way to much in the game as it is, so I'm not sweating it). So instead of driving myself mad over that. I decided to make my own stuff and it's not showing. Like one painting I made about 2 weeks ago, it wasn't showing up, but for some reason last night while decorating my new house, there it was. (I'm still not seeing the other 3 I made the same day)
But anyway, maybe it takes a few times for the game to recognize that new stuff has been added and even if you don't see it right away, it will show up out of the blue. Like the one painting, I was excited to see it there.
SAME HERE. I was trying to find something that was ******* up my game so I took out of my mod/.package files and also ran my game with out CC. But, all of the mods worked back in game and all of my .sim3packs in my launcher were not. The problem turned out to be a mod if that helps anyone.
I hope this works for everybody.