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residualavatar
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13 years ago
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Installed expansion is not showing up in-game

I just bought the Supernatural expansion through Origin. When I installed it, the external installer warned that the previous installation was newer than expected, and that Supernatural might not be ...
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Gardia
Seasoned Ace
13 years ago

Is the Supernatural expansion pack showing up as installed in your computer? This is what I would do, uninstall the Supernatural expansion pack, uninstall and install Origin again and install Supernatural again.

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residualavatar
New Rookie
13 years ago

The alias for it is in the Sims 3 folder, but the uninstaller doesn't recognize that the game is installed, even though the Origin client does.

What I ended up doing is deleting the Sims 3 folder altogether and re-installing everything from scratch. Took all day, but I finally got it to work.

I guess now the question is: Why did this happen — and am I going to have to re-install everything every time I add an expansion?

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