Re: Items from the exchange wont show in the game?
Open your sims 3 game launcher, then go into the download tab. In that tab you can look under:
"All" downloads, Sims (which is a sim, hairstyle, hats, clothing, etc.), Pets, Lots, Objects, or patterns. Look and see if the item you downloaded is showing in the item column. If it is in there, then does it have a sims package with a arrow in the status column? or is that box blank with nothing in it?
If the status column by your item is a blank box, then the item is downloaded but not installed to your game.
To install a downloaded item to your game: check the select box to the left of your item, then click the install button at the bottom. This can take a little bit of time. When it finishes installing another pop up box will come up and tell you the installation is complete, check the ok button. It will finish up the install then. (I find on my computer that they install better if I do 1 at a time, instead of selecting a few to download/install at once)
I also have had items look like they are installing but actually do not (but they always have a blank box in the status column when that happens)
What has fixed that issue for me is: log out and close out your sims 3 and game launcher, then go into your Internet explorer (even if you do not use it as your main search engine) delete the browsing history, temp files, etc.. (even though I do not use IE there is always stuff it deletes) Then open up your launcher, log back in and do the install, it should install and work fine then.
I hope this helps you - let me know
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