HELLO
I have this persisting issue where my worlds i have gotten from packs are broken. Like broken in a way i haven’t be able to fix. Some of the worlds are duplicated but have ._ in front of them and when i click on those worlds they give me made up latin words as the description. When i found the location of the worlds and the actual files they look to be normal. If anyone has any idea how to fix this pls lmk. Please see the attachments .
angelina886 I'm sorry, I missed the tag that you were on a Mac. To kill a process, open Activity Monitor, inside Applications > Utilities, sort by name, double-click the name of the process, and you'll see the option to quit in the pop-up that appears.
For the Data folder, find the Sims 3.app, here by default:
Applications > EA Games
Right-click the .app (it has a green plumbob icon) and select Show Package Contents, then open:
Contents > Resources > The Sims 3.app > [right-click, Show Package Contents] > Contents > GameData > Shared > NonPackaged > Worlds
Delete SunsetValley.world inside, then repair the game and see whether you specifically get a duplicate copy of SV at the Main Menu.
If this helps, open the Sims 3 Packs folder, in the same location as the Sims 3.app, and open the folder for one of your EPs that's showing a duplicate world. For example, Moonlight Falls is Supernatural, which is EP07. Inside that, open GameData > Shared > NonPackaged > Worlds and delete the .world file inside, then repair again.
The EA App should repair the pack from which you deleted the .world file, but if it doesn't, you can delete the entire EP folder and download it again. Whether or not the repair restores the .world file, I'd like to know whether the duplicate world disappears from the Main Menu. The main world should disappear; this is a question of where the duplicate is coming from.
Hello Puzzlezaddict
Thanks for the comment. I have cleared the cache and repaired the game after clearing the cache. It seems my EA Background agent is running at all times. How does one stop this on Mac? I also am looking for my data folder, and I'm not seeing it in my sims 3 folder. Where else would it be?
angelina886 Please clear the App's cache:
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
and repair the game (EA App > Sims 3 > Manage > Repair). Then test again. If you still see duplicate worlds, move or rename the Sims 3 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts and look again. This will remove, but not delete, any saves or other user data you have, but that can be restored later.
If this doesn't help either, close the EA App and make sure it and the EABackgroundService are NOT running in the Task Manager; the latter would be under background processes. Open [install location]\The Sims 3, here by default:
C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 3
and delete the Data folder, then repair the game again.
I used the EA app to download them.
angelina886 What kind of install is this: EA App, disc, Steam, mixed, something else? It looks like an issue with the install, but how to fix that depends on how you installed in the first place.
