Why are all the photos blank/grey in my game?

@igazor @TreyNutz thank you so much for your help guys! I would try following @TreyNutz 's tutorial first and if that fails I will try using Nraas Traveler, but I do have a few questions about that...

@igazor I already have ErrorTrap, but not Overwatch, now looking at the inner works of the latter it definitely looks like an essential, thank you for pointing that one out to me. I would actually like to both move the family to another town(due to the way I want my story to go, they are moving from Twinbrook to Moonlight Falls) and try to decrease my save size. If I use Traveller first(which I would need to study when I am more awake as right now it sounds a bit complex to me) to travel & prevent the photos from disappearing and then use Kuree's SaveCleaner am I risking loosing my save or the photos somehow or are the two mods not conflicting? Sorry if this sounds like a silly question :)

Kuree's SaveCleaner is not a mod. It's a utility that you use when the game is not running to clean up bloated nhd files within your save folder. No conflict. :)

The usual point of using Traveler to move to a new world is that the old one stays in your game as a connected world and your sims' connections, relationships, and history with those left behind remain intact. The old world, Twinbrook in this example, and the sims remaining there go into a state of suspended animation while Moonlight Falls is being played. You can travel sims back to Twinbrook on a vacation to visit if wanted, move sims back there, or transition active play back there, during which time Moonlight Falls would be suspended. Or you can delete the Twinbrook portion of your game entirely if that was what you really wanted to begin with.

It's been a while for this thread but if there are only a few pictures/ portraits to save there is a simple workaround I've found, which is to rename one of your sims in the original save (or move a townie in if you want to avoid possible duplicates), move the items you want saved into their personal inventory, then edit town and save them to bin.
In your new save/ cleaned save, add that sim to your current family, unload those pictures/ portraits into the house and kick the sim out or completely remove them from the game using nraas Mastercontroller. Nrass > Mastercontroller > Advanced > Total Annihilation

If you've already cleaned your save and can't go back easily, this is not the worst solution lol.

I'm glad @Igazor is here to point out that there's a more compatible save cleaner, I used an old one and had this old problem come back recently so I didn't have the resource you mentioned. Thank you for all you do!

Hey there,

Since this thread had been inactive since 2017 and all the important information seems to have been shared here, I'm closing it as per our necroposting rules.

- Leeloo