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aprilraven
Rising Traveler
12 years ago
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Midnight Hollow Gold not showing up in game

Hi, I'm trying to follow the instructions from here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3-Store/FAQ-The-Sims-3-Store/td-p/333394  and I have a question about this first part: Go to documents\electro...
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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    12 years ago

    There are two different kind of files. The ones that end in dbc and the ones that end in ebc.

    The ebc is all your Store content (which you will need to reinstall completely if you move them), the dbc files are all your custom content which you installed through the launcher (not the ones you have as package files). You can leave those since the corruption usually only affects one kind of files and not both. If you move out the whole folder, you will need to reinstall everything, if you only move out the ebc ones, you will only need to reinstall the Store content but not your third-party content.

    Do delete the missingdeps.idx that's just a cache file that recreates.

    Hope that makes it clearer, otherwise, do feel free to ask further questions.

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crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago

There are two different kind of files. The ones that end in dbc and the ones that end in ebc.

The ebc is all your Store content (which you will need to reinstall completely if you move them), the dbc files are all your custom content which you installed through the launcher (not the ones you have as package files). You can leave those since the corruption usually only affects one kind of files and not both. If you move out the whole folder, you will need to reinstall everything, if you only move out the ebc ones, you will only need to reinstall the Store content but not your third-party content.

Do delete the missingdeps.idx that's just a cache file that recreates.

Hope that makes it clearer, otherwise, do feel free to ask further questions.

  • aprilraven's avatar
    aprilraven
    Rising Traveler
    12 years ago

    Ok, I have followed the instructions to move/delete files and caches and reloaded my content, beginning with the Worlds.  When I enter the game, I can see Midnight Hollow, but only for purchase.  I have already paid for Gold.  I went ahead and clicked on the Buy button to see what would happen, and got the message that I was already entitled to this content.  Then the option for Midnight Hollow disappears from my Worlds menu.  It shows as already installed to the main menu in the downloads dashboard, but nothing is visible when choosing a world.

    I have tried to uninstall MH, moving the download file out, clearing the world cache, and trying to reinstall, but I get the message it's already installed.  It does not show up in the Installed Worlds folder.  What file do I need to move or delete to try to reinstall?

    Thanks for any help, this is getting really frustrating. 

    • crinrict's avatar
      crinrict
      Hero+
      12 years ago

      So it's still not in the list further down ? Most often if it shows up to buy, that's just an ingame store fluke and it's there a second time.

      Did you install any other worlds yet ? Do they show up ?

      • aprilraven's avatar
        aprilraven
        Rising Traveler
        12 years ago

        Thank you very much for your help, crinrict. 🙂  Whenever I would click on the gold version, that and the one further down the list would vanish.  I finally uninstalled and reinstalled MH all over again to get both options to appear.  I can select the non-gold version and get into MH that way.  Thank you! 

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