Sims 3 university (mac)

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@felicity00 wrote:

I recently purchased sims 3 university life on origin. It says its installed and comes up in my sims folder but when I go onto the sims and try to enroll them in university it dosen't come up (mac) 

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Hi

When you open your game launcher, is the icon for University Life (in the row along the bottom of the launcher) coloured-in or greyed-out? Also when you are in the game, do you see any evidence that Uni Life is installed? For example if you click on a young adult sim's phone, is the option to enrol at university there? In Buy/Build mode do you see any Uni content such as the new beds and so on?

If not then your Orign download has not worked properly. Sometimes the download or installation fails. This can be for a variety of factors, including your internet connection dropping out during the download. Sometimes this can result in an awkward situation in which Origin acts as though the game is installed correctly. This means you can’t play the game, but nor will Origin let you re-download it. You cannot easily “uninstall” the game, because of course it isn’t there.

There are two things you can try.

1.Go into Applications on your Mac's hard drive and look in the folder called “The Sims 3”. This is the location from which your game actually launches (as opposed to a similarly named folder within Documents, which is where your saves and other data are stored). In the folder in Applications you will see the shortcut icons for the base game as well as any expansions or stuff packs installed. If you can see the icon for the game that has failed to properly download from Origin, try right clicking on it and this should give you the option to show the original file. You can move the original files to the trash from there. This may allow you to commence a re-download from Origin. (Many thanks go to Tremayne from TS3 Mac forum for this suggestion.)

2. Look in Preferences in the Origin client and find the game installers. Delete the files relating to TS3. Log out of the client, then back in, then you may be able to start redownloading.

If this does not work, or if the icon is missing from the “The Sims 3” folder in Applications, then you may need to completely uninstall and reinstall.

Caspin