Hey Shalua!
Good to see you again! I was worried some horrible fate befell you. :(
Your thread here got deleted a month or so ago when some unscrupulous hacker gained administrator entry to the forums, and deleted the front page of all the forums, all the threads were lost. I was able to copy your thread from TS3CC to post back here. We miss you at TS3CC, Meresimp keeps asking me if I've seen you about. :mrgreen: I hope you come back. :D
Pae40099,
These are the steps I take once I've exported a world after the first time to check it in game.
1. I uninstall the previous version through the launcher first. If it's saying it is still installed, it should be in your installed content.
2. Open up Windows Explorer, go to:
Documents/
Electronic Arts/
Sims 3/
WorldCaches...............delete anything with your world name, then go to:
Installed Worlds.............Do the same as above, go to:
DCBackup....................Delete everything. You should do this once in awhile anyway, this file just keeps collecting stuff and grows to a huge size.
I've just exported, I open up windows explorer, go to:
Documents/
Electronic Arts/
Sims 3/
Exports
Your Worlds .sims3pack should be sitting right there. I double click on it, and it should install. You may have to manually drop it into your downloads folder and do it through the Launcher. Since Ambitions came out I've had to manually drop all my .sims3packs into the downloads folder.
This is what I do, if you've moved or deleted files, before uninstalling through the Launcher, that could be a problem. If you've already gone through all these steps, we may need some advice from someone more knowledgeable then myself.
If you've done all this, here are a few question you can answer so I know better what you've done so far;
1. Have you uploaded your world before to the exchange? You don't need to upload your world in order to test it out, also, you can only upload your world once to the Exchange, unless you extract and replace files with s3pe.
2. Have you installed your world before to your PC?
3. Exactly how did you uninstall it?
4. Have you moved your DCCache file out, then started the game and it generated a new one?
