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Anonymous

13 years ago

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[MAC] Sims 3 Generations Installation problem. Select destination; can't find base game file.

I originally bought the sims 3 plus late night expansion cd, and it's been working fine for a long time. I just bought and downloaded the Generations expansion from amazon, but as soon as I try to in...

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Anonymous
13 years ago
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I think I actually figured it out! When browsing for the location to place the install, I clicked the bar at the top of the window that said mstanford (my name), and from the drop down I chose Macintosh HD instead. I had to choose the hard drive like I always do, but this time I had to choose it through browsing. Weird stuff.

Anonymous

12 years ago

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I was receiving the same notification, but I had to use a different solution. I simply hadn't saved The Sims 3 base game as an application, and was instead saved as a download. I had the icon on my desktop, went into Finder, and dragged and dropped the icon from my desktop into my applications. This might help others looking for an answer, and save them the time of re-installing everything.

e4STFL4R3
12 years ago
Thankyou, solved my problem.
Kat_Batt
11 years ago
Thank you so much, was having the same problem which I haven't encountered before when installing new expansions!