Why are all the photos blank/grey in my game?
I probably have around 100-200 photos in my sim's family inventory and in her personal inventory. Most of them are from when she and her two siblings were growing up, a few of their parents, and a few...
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"igazor;15556963" wrote:
Hi there. The file being talked about, strange though it may seem, is the TravelDB.package file. When you start a new game with existing binned sims, or move them to a new world the EA way, you are possibly without realizing wiping that file out. Therefore, pictures and pictures frames in-game will blank out from that point backwards. The sims don't seem to realize it, but we players can't see them anymore.
There is a way to extract the data from the old TravelDB file and insert it into the current one using tools like S3PE, but it's a really fussy process and there is no reason to expect the right pictures to end up displaying in the right photos in the new game. I probably wouldn't attempt it myself for quite that many of them.
For purposes of a test run though, you might try just copying the old TravelDB file into a copy of your new game, thus bumping out the existing one, and see what happens. Might make more of a mess of things than you've already got, so be prepared to dump the whole test copy if that happens.
When I was playing one of my previous games, I had the photos and paintings wiped when I moved the sims to another town using the phone, but it only applied to things that were in the Sims inventory, the things in their Family Inventory were ok. I am now playing another family and want to move them to another town and keep the photos(I have photos of my main couple that took me forever to take as the camera is hard to control for whatever reason), so I have already saved everything to the family inventory. I wanted to bin them as they are right now and start a new save in another town as I hoping that this would reduce my save size - would the photos still disappear if they are in family inventory?
You mentioned that one can try restoring them using S3PE - I only have a few photos I really want, so I would like to try it, but I haven't really used S3PE before, only had a quick peek at it. Is there perhaps a tutorial for restoring photos that you can link me to? Thank you in advance!
