Random pictures being saved to my computer
I have the Sims 3 Ambitions and Generations. Whenever I play the game it saves 500 random pictures of random objects to my laptop and it's really pissing me off having to go through each one and dele...
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Here's a link to what one of the pictures are
And here's just a bunch of them in my images folder
Also, they're not being saved to a specific Sims images folder, they're being saved to my images folder of actual images that I've saved
the images are definitley featured items images
edit typo i dropped an s the way my typeing has been today i'm close to dropping the whole alphabet :D
Well this is very strange isn't it. As rum said, those images definitely look like the ones that normally appear in the "Featured Items" folder, but the OP is saying that they are appearing elsewhere.
OP - if you look in the "Featured Items" folder, do you see any images in there? If not then it sounds as though these are the regular images that are generated but for some reason the game is saving them to the wrong place.
Exactly which folder are these images turning up in?
Yeah the Featured Items folder is empty. Here's a picture of where they are. I have mac 10.8 so it's under All My Files there's an images folder and that's where they are being saved
so they are going into the wrong folder now we need to figure out how to tell the images to go to the featured folders by changeing the folder path for them
Yeah I don't know how to do stuff like that...
we'll or i should say i'll try to figure that bit out for you and post here or i'll ask in the helpers corner and we'll both learn something new 🙂
- I wonder if it is worth trying to temporarily move your TS3 folder out of Documents and onto the desktop (you can always put it back) and let the game generate a new one to give a fresh start. There are instructions on how to do this in the first post (under "primary things to try first") of Bluebell's help thread here :
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Links-to-Mac-help-threads-and-guides/m-p/749664#U749664
This might "reset" how your TS3 folder works. If the OP is willing to try this, then open the game and then close it again, we could see if the images then go into the correct folder. If they do, that might suggest that something odd has rerouted them in the current setup.
What do you think? Hi, sorry that took so long, but that did not work. The images are still not going where they're supposed to go
- Hi
I really don't know what to suggest. You may just need to delete them all when you quit playing. You could try uninstalling and reinstalling TS3 but if nothing else is wrong I suspect you'd be reluctant to do so. If you do decide to: http://bluebellflora.com/the-sims-3-on-a-mac/how-to-do-a-clean-uninstall-and-reinstall-on-a-mac/
Sorry could not think of a better solution. If I find out more about this I will get back to you. ☹️
Caspin the thing that just entered my head is and hopes it works is make that folder read only to see if it will prevent the images building up there and make a new folder for the images from the internet that you do want to save but make sure to direct the images to go to that new folder at least for testing purposes to see if the featured items images will stop building up OR will start to go to the new folder..what do you think caspinwall ?
