The Sims 3 on Mac - Things Not Working
After the 2025 June or July update on Mac a lot of things broke such as: Mac cannot read .exe files which I have found this is what is the core issue. Collecting Bugs Swimming / Fishing in the oc...
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Apptastic1 For future reference, none of this has anything to do with whether Macs can read files with the .exe extension, which they cannot. If that were the problem, the game wouldn't open at all. The executable is what runs the game; everything else is data that gets pulled as necessary. And the Mac version contains Unix executable files, which of course work fine in macOS.
Master threads for the issues you've listed:
[CURRENT ISSUE 64-bit] Cannot collect insects | EA Forums - 11153121
[CURRENT ISSUE 64-bit] All open water options missing | EA Forums - 11148737
Launcher crashes when I open the downloads tab in Sims 3 | EA Forums - 12167613
Other issues you're seeing probably also have their own threads.
The tools for converting .Sims3Pack files to .package were always Windows-only because the people that created them only made Windows versions. It was previously possible to use Mono to run the tools in macOS, but that was a number of operating systems ago and before macOS dropped 32-bit support.
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