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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"ArielGrint;15639065" wrote:"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 was ok. I am now playing another family and want to move them to another town and keep the photos(I have a 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 peak at it. Is there perhaps a tutorial for restoring photos that you can link me to? Thank you in advance!
I can try to find one, but I've been through this myself and it's really fussy and complicated. What I would recommend instead, if mods are feasible and tolerable, is using NRaas Traveler (together with Overwatch and ErrorTrap) to move sims to a new world instead of doing it the EA way.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Traveler+FAQ
(See the Switching Homeworlds section near the end)
If reduction of file size is all that is really being sought, I would also recommend Kuree's SaveCleaner. Version 1 does not tend to blank out photos and actually still works with Patch 1.69.
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=547717
