keep getting old icon supernatural instead of late night and it won't open launcher

the game always plays from the newest installed game in your  case supernatural's late night is older so any game you buy and install before supernatural's was released will play from supernatural's installation

i'm not a mac user so ihope something in this thread can help you but let us know if it doesn't and we'll try to get some mac help for you

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Links-to-Mac-help-threads-and-guides/m-p/749664#U749664

That explains the icon. Now all I get is unknown error occurred, tried to uninstall supernatural and reinstall but no dice.   

Other message at start up>>>>   Unable to copy file/Users/main/applications/The Sims3.localized/The Sims3 Supernatural.app/Contents/Resources/Preferences/update_gamekeys.reg to'User/main/Library/Preferences/the Sims 3 Preferences/update_gamekeys.reg

ok so at least it's half solved for you 🙂 now i'll post this in the helpers corner to see if we can get some mac help for you ( i have no idea what time the mac helper will be online at but they will look and reply )

Thank you so very much

Hello there,

Are your games on discs, digital downloads, or a mixture?

Caspin

All Disc Do I have do a reinstall, went to help page and I do not have a go in finder.  I am runing OS 10.8.5

Hi

I am not sure what is going on with the error message you are seeing but it does sound as though there are some problems with your installation. I know it is a nuisance and time-consuming but I think you may need to completely uninstall and reinstall.

When you uninstall TS3 games on your Mac using the "uninstaller", the game leaves behind stray files and isn't completely removed from your computer. These files may conflict with future installations. It is best to completely remove them. BluebellFlora's website provides a guide on how to do this:

http://bluebellflora.com/the-sims-3-on-a-mac/how-to-do-a-clean-uninstall-and-reinstall-on-a-mac/

After cleanly uninstalling, install the base game and patch it up to date. If you cannot update via the Launcher, download and apply the latest cumulative manual patch (called the superpatch) for Mac.

Check that your game works properly. Then install any EPs and SPs that you own, in order of release date.

Caspin

I installed up to generations, but Supernatural will not install at all. Very strange, all works up to generations. All checks out even Dragon Valley. So it must be the disc. Wish there was a way to check it, and not have to buy another Superntrual EP.  It shows in download App Sims 3 folder with the rest of the EP's, but just goes Gen EP. will open launcher no problem. ????? It does have some ware on it cause it's the last EP I used the most.