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Rising Scout

5 years ago

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My TS3 Game Launcher seems to be duplicating items i've downloaded/installed

I'm sure i've only clicked download/install once.

Whenever I log into the game and scroll through installed worlds, some of them show twice.

Is there a way to prevent or fix this?

Thanks!

puzzlezaddict
5 years ago
@KillerRaven125 As a test, try installing store content into a clean folder. Move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, open the launcher to spawn a clean folder, and install one item. If you get one copy (and not two), try installing one world. If that's fine too, load the game, check out the world to make sure it installed properly, quit, restart your computer, and look again to make sure you still only have one copy of the world and the other item.

puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@KillerRaven125 Do you have a second instance of each affected world in the InstalledWorlds folder? (It's in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3.) Are these store or custom worlds?
KillerRaven125
Rising Scout
5 years ago
Oh, i've looked in InstalledWorlds and there are duplicates there too. Oof.
They're store worlds.
And after looking through objects/sim category on the launcher, it looks like some objects/clothing have duplicated as well.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@KillerRaven125 As a test, try installing store content into a clean folder. Move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, open the launcher to spawn a clean folder, and install one item. If you get one copy (and not two), try installing one world. If that's fine too, load the game, check out the world to make sure it installed properly, quit, restart your computer, and look again to make sure you still only have one copy of the world and the other item.
KillerRaven125
Rising Scout
5 years ago
Weird. This seemed to be a decent solution. Not sure what's wrong with the main folder I just placed elsewhere.
Thanks for your help!

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