Re: Disappearing Sims

@Tremayne4260 Hi there! Thank you so much for your help. 

I did exactly as you advised and moved my 'Sims 2' folder to my desktop, then reopened the game. Everything seemed to be working perfectly fine, as though I had just reset an entirely fresh installation of the game. There weren't any major issues. 

So what happens now at this point? If I were to put my original 'Sims 2' folder back where it came from in the 'Aspyr' folder, would my problems still be there? Or would they have been fixed by this little 'reset?' 

If not, how do I figure out what was in my original folder that was doing the corrupting? Because as I said, these are only recent developments. Thank you so much for your help!!

@wiintersoldierr , yes you can add back your original sims games into the new Aspyr folder. First, start by adding back any CC/mods from your Downloads folder (that is one folder you can transfer back in with very few problems. Move that one back first and check to see if all your CC is back in the game. Play for a little bit just to check and make sure it all works. 

Let me know if this part works and then we'll work on adding back your saved games. That is a bit more tricky and I want to make sure that CC/mods aren't the problem.

@Tremayne4260 Okay. So I added back the 'Downloads' folder and then reopened the game. Upon reopening, I received this error message.

The list of problematic CC is, as you can see, quite long. I will say that normally what I hit is 'enable custom content' however this time I hit 'disable' instead. 

When I got into the game, I opened up the Create A Sim and saw that a good deal of my CC such as downloaded outfits and hairstyles still existed, meaning that even with 'disabled' custom content, there still must be some CC that is okay that the game is allowing through. 

Should I continue hitting 'disable' from this point on? (I will say, I don't recall any serious problems happening even with this problematic CC being enabled, but who knows what was going on.)

@wiintersoldierr , actually that is just the list of CC you have in game and the game alerting you to the fact you have CC/Mods in the game. I usually just hit "Enable". Depending on how much CC you have, it can slow the game down. I have organized my CC into various categories (like clothes, makeup, hair, buy, build, furniture) to either cull or keep what I wish to. I've tried to keep my Downloads folder to a minimum (yeah, I'm a CC packrat) and I just checked and mine is currently at 99MB. Kind of light, so I'd say keep it about no more than 2GB at most. You can right click on your Downloads folder and choose "Get Info" to find out how large it is. 

Before we add back your original saves, I'd like to know how much CC you have. Just so we can eliminate it as a source of the problem.

@Tremayne4260Hi there — you're right, my CC is at 2.3 GB!!! I had no idea that was my level of CC haha. So I should probably downsize, correct? I ended up going through my CC to delete some stuff and now I'm down to like 1.7GB. I'd like to downsize further just to be safe, but that's what I've done so far.

@Tremayne4260 Hey there! Any chance you've got some last advice for me? 🙂  I've been holding off playing my game just in case.

@wiintersoldierr , so have you gone through your CC and removed what you can live without? Just asking. 🙂

Also make sure if you play with any mods that you have the latest versions. Many folks haven't updated recently, but do check to make sure you have the latest ones. 

Let's see if this works and keeps your game stable. If this works, then we can try to add back your saved games.

@wiintersoldierr , wonderful! Sounds like that is a good number. I wouldn't go over 2GB. 🙂

Ok, did you want to try and add back your original saved games?

@Tremayne4260 Yes, I would love to! Sims kept disappearing from my saved games, and I don't know why ☹️ I would love to get them back and see if that stops happening!

@wiintersoldierr , ok, adding back saved games is a bit tricky, but not terribly so. First you need to open your Sims 2 folder in your Library and then open up the Sims 2 folder you saved to your Desktop with your saved games. Now, it would be wonderful if you could simply add back the folders, but you can't as the game won't recognize your folders. So, what you need to do is to open up the Neighborhood folder you have saved games in (so for example Pleasantview is  N001) from your Desktop folder and then open up the same folder in your Library Sims 2 folder. (You should have two files open at the same time). You can copy and paste the files from your Desktop folder into the Library folder and answer "Yes" to copying/overwriting the files in your Library folder. Do this for all the files within the Neighborhood folder (and there are a lot of files there, but you need to copy over all of them). You can simply transfer them over as well. 

I hope this makes sense and if not, please feel free to ask me to clarify anything for you. 🙂