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
