"CharlotteMeganW;c-16611725" wrote:
Hello everyone! I'm a new member and so can't start my own thread and this one looked pretty relevant! I've been scouring the internet for a few days and tried a couple things but so far no luck (I'm also not very technologically intelligent so that may be a contributing factor)
So I have had a legacy going for a couple years on a custom neighbourhood (N004) in ~/library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/ etc.
Yesterday, my laptop ran out of battery whilst I was playing, I charged it up a few hours later, loaded Sims 2 and went to play on my neighbourhood but it had completely vanished. It appears that all the files are still intact in my documents. Is there anything I can do? Haven't backed it up for about 100 hours of playing, so all is not lost but I'm pretty heartbroken about it!
Also I've read through the neighbourhood corruption page on wiki and pretty certain I've not done any of those things, I don't use any cheats full stop - only thing I can remember is when a pet's urn got knocked off a bedside table and that was probably 5/6 months ago!
All advice welcome...
Thank you, Charlotte
If you don't have the mod nounlinkondelete, the pet's urn being smashed did technically corrupt the neighborhood. If you had absolutely no symptoms of corruption: improper wants (children who wish to woohoo), children/toddlers with LTW's other than Grow Up, etc, then I would find it odd that the game jumped straight to end game corruption status (not able to load the neighborhood).
- Do other custom neighborhoods still load up or did they all disappear?
- Have you tried swapping out to the back up version? Don't delete the current one obviously, but maybe move that one to the desktop if you haven't tried seeing if the back up will show up.
- If you don't have other custom neighborhoods, have you tried creating a new neighborhood?
And even after you get this issue resolved, as long as you take frequent back ups and keep more than one version, the neighborhood being corrupted shouldn't cause you to immediately have to ditch the neighborhood. There are people who have managed to play a neighborhood for 10+ years having done things that cause corruption. And there are also people who have it happen really quickly.
