Re: Strange duplicate files in Sims 3 folder

I did exactly as you told me and moved my original Sims 3 folder to the desktop and started up the game. I've been playing for a while now and everything is working perfectly with no crashes or lagg, so maybe i had a corrupted save file?
Should i try to put the original folder back now?
I also forgot to mention that i did have the Onedrive on for a while but i finally managed to inactivate it yesterday, so it shouldn't interfere with my game.

@HummingBird_005  The fact that the game is running well now with the new user data folder in place means there may be some corrupt or nonworking files in the old folder.  It could also be that OneDrive was interfering in real time, but I don't know when you disabled it.  At any rate, the next move is not to put the old folder back but to start transferring files to the new folder and testing.  If the game stops working, you'll know that whatever you moved over, or at least one of the files, is a problem, and you can split that batch and test until you find the culprit.

Personally, I'd test mods first, if you have them, then custom content, then other non-save content, and leave the saves for last, when you've established that the rest of the content is working.  Be sure to delete the five cache files in the Sims 3 folder any time you add (or remove) content from that folder.  For reference:

• CASPartCache.package
• compositorCache.package
• scriptCache.package
• simCompositorCache.package
• socialCache.package

Many files are extraneous and will be recreated as needed, so you won't need to move over the old copies.  For a complete list of everything in your user data folder, along with explanations of what you might want to preserve, please see this post:

https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/01/faq-user-files.html

Yes, it must be some file that got corrupt or possibly missing, because i compared the old folder to the new one and found that the old one was missing a file that came with the new one. So i will indeed not put back the old one instead transfer things like you've suggested. It's really great to know that in the core my game is not broken and neither is something in my computer. The Onedrive seems to have disturbed it, because at one point old things i removed started crawling back into my regular folder, so i had wound up with two Sims 3 folders, and the Onedrive tried to sync them so they would be the same again, it made my entire computer go nuts.
I'll go ahead and try the mods first, i mostly use CAS mods and a few objects. Other than that i have some custom content that i have downloaded from the store and some simpacks from a mod site. Do i need to go find them and re-download them btw?

I will proceed exactly as you've suggested there, it feels like the best way to transfer things and test out if something is broken there.
I'll go ahead and remove the cache files as well.

I haven't said it until now, but thank you so much for taking the time to help me and guide me through the process of fixing my game, i appriciate it super much.

@HummingBird_005  Yes, OneDrive can really mess things up for Sims 3, and really any game that stores significant data within the Documents directory.  Unless people have another reason to use it, disabling it is usually the best option.

I wouldn't think you'd need to redownload your mods or custom content.  The files could have been corrupted, which is why you test first, but if they work in the new folder, they don't need to be replaced.  For Sims3packs, even if you needed to reinstall them, you could probably find the original downloads in Downloads inside the old Sims 3 folder; those could be copied to Downloads in the new folder and installed through the launcher.  But don't do this if you're transferring the .dbc (custom content) and .ebc (store content) files from DCCache, or you'll get duplicates.  And when your Sims3Pack content is installed, you can remove the packs from Downloads and store them elsewhere.  (It's better to keep them as backups in case you ever need to reinstall.)

I'm glad I could help, and of course if you have another issue, or just more questions, please keep coming back.

I tried now with my regular mods installed, and it worked fine, but when i added my simpacks it shut down again after like 1 minute. So it could probably be one of them, i'm not too sure how to discover which one, should i uninstall half and see how it runs?
I also put in the installed worlds i had before, not sure if they can disturb the game while i'm not in one of them.

@HummingBird_005  Is everything working now?  Let me know if you need help adding any other content.

@HummingBird_005  The xcpt file is another crash dump, and it's just as useless as the others.  So feel free to trash it and any ones you see in the future.

What you add back from the old folder depends on what you want to keep.  Crinrict's guide to user files that I linked earlier explains what everything is, but you might not miss, or even use, certain content.  For example, the userpresets file contains any recolors you've saved in CAS, but if you don't save recolors, or you don't reuse ones you've saved, you won't need to transfer that file.  Similarly, if you never save sims in CAS itself, only saving the households once you're done creating them (or rather, the game saves the households), there will be nothing in SavedSims to transfer.

@HummingBird_005  Great, I'm glad to hear things are working now.  If you run into trouble in the future, you know where to find me.