The town I'm playing is missing, I need help in getting it to show

"Rflong7;14974234" wrote:
I've don't remember it being so fragile, I've played generations in one town but I never used more than 2GBs of CC. I don't want to blame mods/CC but I never had a neighborhood disappear *knock on wood* and I've made and played many.

My CC is up to about 4GBs now... I wish there wasn't so much Cool CC now (or that I've gotten so tired of their clothes). :lol:

In doing some research it does appear that neighborhoods disappearing is a sign of neighborhood corruption (and so corrupted the game no longer recognizes it) or corruption of the neighborhoodmanager.package file. Whether the corruption is due to in game actions or random corruption is unknown in this case.

"@Seera1024;14974352" wrote:

"Rflong7;14974234" wrote:
I've don't remember it being so fragile, I've played generations in one town but I never used more than 2GBs of CC. I don't want to blame mods/CC but I never had a neighborhood disappear *knock on wood* and I've made and played many.

My CC is up to about 4GBs now... I wish there wasn't so much Cool CC now (or that I've gotten so tired of their clothes). :lol:

In doing some research it does appear that neighborhoods disappearing is a sign of neighborhood corruption (and so corrupted the game no longer recognizes it) or corruption of the neighborhoodmanager.package file. Whether the corruption is due to in game actions or random corruption is unknown in this case.

Oh, sure. I'm not saying it's not. I've corrupted a few neighborhoods- usually from adding Sims with friends/families from other neighborhoods thinking I did it right. I'm just adding my opinion. :)

You might want to use THIS to check for corruption and fix it if any is found.I've had it for a while and found it very useful when one of mine failed to load and would crash the game on trying to load.

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

"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.