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6 years ago

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Sims 3 Umiversity Save Issue

Every time I send my Sim to University, I go back to her home lot and she is still there. I keep going back to send her siblings since financial aid will not multiply for the number of Sims being enr...

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puzzlezaddict
6 years ago
@jilljill1124 Okay, two things. First, if you're switching to the pre-University save on the Main Menu, then of course your sim is still there, because you saved before she left for University. The "save as" creates a new save file, and the older one remains in its previous state. Within the University save, there's no reason from what you've described to think this sim actually has a double.

Second, when you switch saves from the Main Menu, you introduce data from the first save into the second. Even if those two saves were originally the same, you can still corrupt the entire save that way. When switching from one save to another, you really do need to quit to desktop first. It's also a good idea to delete the five cache files in your Sims 3 user data folder in Documents\Electronic Arts, just to keep any of that data from crossing saves as well. For reference, the five cache files are:

CASPartCache.package

compositorCache.package

scriptCache.package

simCompositorCache.package

socialCache.package

If you load the save from before your sim traveled to University, you "save as," you play her forward through the term, and you send her home, there should not be a double. But it's still possible for the travel transition to go badly in either direction. When that happens, quit to desktop without saving and try again. Let me know if it repeatedly doesn't work.

puzzlezaddict

Hero+

6 years ago

@jilljill1124 Okay, two things. First, if you're switching to the pre-University save on the Main Menu, then of course your sim is still there, because you saved before she left for University. The "save as" creates a new save file, and the older one remains in its previous state. Within the University save, there's no reason from what you've described to think this sim actually has a double.

Second, when you switch saves from the Main Menu, you introduce data from the first save into the second. Even if those two saves were originally the same, you can still corrupt the entire save that way. When switching from one save to another, you really do need to quit to desktop first. It's also a good idea to delete the five cache files in your Sims 3 user data folder in Documents\Electronic Arts, just to keep any of that data from crossing saves as well. For reference, the five cache files are:

CASPartCache.package
compositorCache.package
scriptCache.package
simCompositorCache.package
socialCache.package

If you load the save from before your sim traveled to University, you "save as," you play her forward through the term, and you send her home, there should not be a double. But it's still possible for the travel transition to go badly in either direction. When that happens, quit to desktop without saving and try again. Let me know if it repeatedly doesn't work.