Need help - CAW no longer Exports the World I'm working on.

Well, so far 21 people have viewed this post - but no one has a comment or suggestion?
Guess I'm on my own.

I have not had any success trying to repair or otherwise fix this problem. Not even taking this world back to its base
(removing everything except the roads, lights, and FX. - they will be removed piece by piece next...) Something is preventing this world from compiling for export.

Hi @Dr_Nonsequitur , it's probably a silly question but have you tried moving DCBackup and DCCache (and Mods if present) from the main Sims3 folder to your desktop and then attempt to export your world from CAW?

I have. I went so far as to uninstall and reinstall everything, Origin, All Sims 3 EP's & Sp's, CAW and deleted my Sims 3 folder in Documents. When the Sims 3 Documents folder regenerated I tried to Export then - before installing any Store or Custom Content. Nothing so far has worked. I was touring around in CAW to see if I could see anything that jumps out to me - I did see the usual garbage in the Global Objects file - a dozen or so things piled up on a fruit basket, and an Egyptian Monolith under the outer edge of the world's perimeter (which I cant locate in any of the Layer folders or click on.

It's pretty frustrating - I've been kicking back - trying to get a fresh "back-burner" perspective on this. Been doing a lot of reading on the forums but haven't found anything I haven't already tried.

Thanks for the reply.

I can't help you unfortunately, but I'm having a massive problem with CAW too and don't have enough points to start a new post, so I'm hijacking:

Origin keeps forgetting that I own EPs and SPs and so I keep launching EIG with them all switched off. This happened yesterday but I didn't realise, and so every single EP/SP object in my world has been replaced (freakin' awesome, right?). I was busy fixing this when EIG crashed. Afterwards I decided to try reverting to a backup because I've realised that manually replacing a lot of objects in at least a dozen buildings is stupid. I loaded the backup, tried to save it under a new name, but it won't save. EIG just spends forever switching between loading and going unresponsive.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

It does seem a temperamental bit of kit. Have you thought of posting under Game Tools. There are quite a few experienced world builders there who have probably come across this kind of thing quite often. I find my large store content causes issues and also rembering to delete earlier versions I have exported to the game. Version control helps with this and remembering to keep a back up of the earlier version you most wanted to keep :)

I've managed to avoid this issue by only saving with save as and never reusing a filename when saving and backing up my saved worlds before using EIG if I ever needed to use it.I've exported blank worlds and one with only a few lots just fine and all are playable worlds.
This can be a problem if you ever just saved the world with save and overwrote the file and the save glitched on you.It might be time to start over with the height map and just not overwrite and save files this time around.

TO: FluffyCannibal...

HI, You posted a response to a thread of mine about CAW/EIG problem. The details you stated where no clear to me.

I noticed a few months before my CAW refused to export that Origine and the Launcher would turn off all of the EP's and SP's I had installed. Any time I attempted to run CAW/EIG would hang up or not bring up the world to edit. What I did to correct this problem was to bring up the Launcher before attempting to load CAW. I then verified that all my EP's and SP's where checked. Exit the launcher and immediately load and run CAW. My world was then able to use CAW/EIG.

If I saved a world that used all my EP/SP's and those EP/SP's were not checked in the launcher - reloading that world would have a problem.
If you saved a world that used all Sp/EP's and those EP/SP's were not turned on in the Launcher - there was a problem. This problem would be present even though you verified all sp/ep's were on AFTER that save - the saved world would have problems.

The Launcher is not stable.
I recommend:
1. run Launcher to verify all EP's and SP's are active that are required for your world.
2. After verifying your EP/SP's are checked and active - Immediately run CAW. Bring up one of the BACKUP copies of you world that was saved BEFORE any saves you have made when the problems started and before you saved when the EP/Sp's were not active. You may have to recover and redo any edits to your world that were made from that Save-Date.

I don't know if this will correct your problem - I do hope so.
If you still have the problems - send my a message. I am rarely on this site so it may be a little while before I will respond. I got so fed up with this problem when my world was about a month from publishing that I just quit working of anything Sims 3.

Just remember that if you notice things missing in your world immediately abandon the CAW/EIG session - DO NOT SAVE IT! Run the launcher and verify your EP/SP's are on. Run the Repair from Origin, run Launcher again to verify EP/SP's are there and check marked as ON. Then - try CAW/EIG again.

If things are still missing - try using CUSTARD or other Sims 3 Cleanup tools
Try doing a reset of your cache files in Documents/The Sims 3 Folder.
Unload and reload all the objects you have in your DOWNLOADS folder after verifying they are not corrupted, incompatible, or duplicates.
Remove all mods - including NRaas Tools (move- not copy- the folder to desktop). If you have Mods/Packages required for your world (furniture, etc) then verify they are not corrupted and replace in Mods/Packages folder and keep the Mods folder in the Documents/Electronic Arts/ The Sims 3 location - just be sure to remove any CORE or Control Mods.
Remove all "Package files" you added to the Program files/Electronic Arts/CAW/Packages folder... verify they are not corrupted and replace. There should be NO CORE or Control packages in the Program Files/Electronic Arts/CAW/Packages folder.

I hope this will be helpful to you and solves your problem.
With me - still haven't got my world to export but can now use CAW and EIG. Mine won't save from EIG though which makes it useless. I think I reloaded and saved all my BACKUP worlds when my system was screwed up just looking for an answer - so no world I have is able to work now - I didn't track or make a save of the world and system to reserve - That was my stupidity. Make sure you keep a BACKUP of your world when it was able to work correctly and not touch that one. If you do use it - make a copy of it before you use it.

Let me know...
Dwayne

TO: BettyBoop55...
Good Suggestions ALL!

I read somewhere that if there is 2GB of objects in your Downloads folder installed, the world will glitch when using CAW/EIG.
I make sure it is well below that - and do not install any clothing, hair, or similar objects. That includes any similar objects into the Mod's folder or in the Program Files/Electronic Arts/CAW/Packages folder. In Mods folder and CAW/Packages folder I do not have any CORE or control packages.

When I'm ready to populate the world before Export - I add clothing, hair, makeup, and pre-made Sims. This is only after I'm finished with the world and ready to publish. I keep a copy of both Documents\The Sims 3 folder and the Program Files/ EA/CAW folder to a separate Drive/Folder (using the current date and what as the folders name.

The trouble is getting there.

TO: TadOlson...

Also a great suggestion!

I tried doing that for a while - I have many backup copies of my world. They are in groups where I saved several times using the same name. I fond it to be a little bit of a problem when I would save under a similar name. If the new name was nearly identical (like just changing the Bata number and Date - using the beta version number and date as mart of the world name) each time I exported to test the world it would actually not install correctly. Sometimes it would tell me the world was already installed. I would need to uninstall any previous version of that world - even if it had a different name and install the new version.

I got lazy and reverted back to my original naming convention (world abbreviation + version number + current date + current time) it changed every time but was still to close to the previous name that I needed to uninstall the previous version before installing the latest version to test.

I found that a radical change in the world name would work - this makes it hard to follow your progression though, but worked.

Unfortunately =- I think I may have corrupted ALL variations of my world searching for a cure to this problem (refer to post above to FluffyCannibal).

I just rename files in CAW every time I save with no overwriting of files unless it's an accident.I also back CAW data up frequently if I'm working on a project like I am now with a desert world.