How to add mods to the Sims 3? Macbook 64 bit
I bought TS3 and installed it through the EA app. The game runs perfectly for me; however, I cannot add mods or CC to it. I looked for it so many times and saw other people say to add the mods folder...
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Hello, thank you for helping me.
I uninstalled TS3 and reinstalled it in Applications/EA Games/The Sims 3. However, it still did not work for me. I still can't find the Sims 3 user folder after I've started the game once. I also saved the game before quitting but when I restart the device, my saved lot just disappear.
The folder of the game just look so empty to me. It does not have all the files that TS3 should have.
@laylan2302 The Sims 3 user folder, the one that contains your saves and other user data, is always in Documents > Electronic Arts, regardless of where you've installed the game. That's why it was important to uninstall Sims 3 itself and install it elsewhere—having these two sets of files in the same location is asking for trouble.
If you've tried to save your progress after uninstalling and reinstalling, and your save/sims/lot disappeared, that might be due to your iCloud Drive settings. Please see the first post of this thread, which was written for Sims 4 but is equally relevant to Sims 3:
If you still can't find your user folder, please open Terminal (in Applications > Utilities) and enter this command:
find / -name "Version.tag" 2>/dev/null
Then post the result here.
@puzzlezaddict I entered the game again and took a screenshot of my Sims to see where it was going to save my screenshots. It turns out that I do have a "Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3" folder where all the necessary files are. But it is inside a hidden folder called "var," and I tried to move the folder out of the hidden files and put it in Documents, but it's not working.
What should I do?
@laylan2302 That's not the right folder; it's a hidden set of reference that isn't supposed to be touched.
Please run the Terminal command I provided, and post the result.
@puzzlezaddict This is the result:
find / -name "Version.tag" 2>/dev/null
/private/var/folders/g1/hyky00qn6qq2k4ksq9dkwqgw0000gn/T/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Version.tag
nguyenbinhphuonglam@Air-cua-Nguyen ~ %
nguyenbinhphuonglam@Air-cua-Nguyen ~ % find / -name "Version.tag" 2>/dev/null
/System/Volumes/Data/private/var/folders/g1/hyky00qn6qq2k4ksq9dkwqgw0000gn/T/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Version.tag
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