Why have my downloads disappeared in sims 3 Island Paradise?

I don't think that doing all of those things before installing the sims 3 Island Paradise should be necessary in order to for Sims 3 to work correctly. I feel like simply installing the game should work just fine, and do not believe that the program should release the game until they have fixed the problems that they know are going to be an issue. I am having the same problem, and am still confused on what to do.

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@blondie112304 wrote:

Yes. I made the mistake of not pulling my DCBackup and DCCache folders out of my S3 folder before installing S3 Island Paradise. I did do the 1.55 update prior to downloading S3 Island Paradise. (Once I install new downloads into the game, I move them out of my downloads folder and  into a folder on my desktop). I download a lot of stuff from The Sims Resource and Sims3.com as well. I have tried little by little adding downloads back to the downloads folder in my actual game folder, loading the launcher and reinstalling them. The box pops up after I install a group of items and says "success" but, they are usually not in the game. Although, they show up in the launcher with the installed symbol next to each item. I fought this war when Universitycame out, but eventually fixed it all. Although I do not remember all that it took because it was a few months ago and it took weeks to figure out and correct each issue. Issues are worse with Island Paradise. IE slow launcher load. Start up, see log for error, issues. Blank welcome page when launcher loads, script running errors, etc. Every time a new game comes available my S3 downloads gets trashed some how. Then I spend upto to 3 weeks getting them some what back in order. Thanks for your time.😕mileyhappy:

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