AFAIR, it's not possible in Sims 4, only in Sims 3 so maybe that person was mixing up the game ?
I find my ability to drag/move inventory items depends on the item, the type of inventory (personal or household), the number of items in the stack – and whether an item(s) is 'stuck'/glitching.
For instance, I can drag stacks of produce items into the Lice Cold Freezers as a stack, even if the stack has over 99. BUT, if I want to sell produce in a stack, USUALLY if the stack has over 99 I need to open the stack and sell them one by one until I get to 98. Then I can sell the stack.
Also... I've had situations where some of the items were 'stuck'/bugging. For instance, I had flowers in a personal inventory that I was trying to add to the flower arranging table's inventory. I couldn't move the stack for one of the types of flowers. I could move them if I opened the stack and moved them one at a time (but not from the top of the stack). I found that several of the top of the stack flowers would not drag, were not delete-able, and were 'stuck – plus they were making the stack 'stuck' when trying to drag it as a whole. However, if I select the 'stuck' item(s) one at a time, I CAN request that the sim 'place in world'. They will then place the item(s) on the ground. If they're not on your lot you can't do anything with the item, but if they're on your lot, you can then drag them from the floor to delete or to sell. If you fix those 'stuck' items first, then you can move the rest of the stack as a whole (unless 99 or more). Usually.
It's a bit funky and I've had to creatively use these methods in a number of situations where inventory items are 'stuck'/glitching, but it works for me.
@SheriGR, your experiences are similar to some of mine. 🤨 Sometimes things will work, but other times they are stuck! 😞 Also, most of the time I cannot move a stack, but I swear that I was able to do that a few times (but I never remembered how it happened and I assumed that that was a glitch, and not the other way around.) 😳😃 Moving a stack usually doesn't work so I just usually don't bother trying. I wish it was more consistent and more clear! ☹️
But thank you for clarifying that in certain instances it will work (I though I had imagined those instances when it happened to me!) 😃:eahigh_file:
@PugLove888 wrote:@SheriGR, your experiences are similar to some of mine. 🤨 Sometimes things will work, but other times they are stuck! 😞 Also, most of the time I cannot move a stack, but I swear that I was able to do that a few times (but I never remembered how it happened and I assumed that that was a glitch, and not the other way around.) 😳😃 Moving a stack usually doesn't work so I just usually don't bother trying. I wish it was more consistent and more clear! ☹️
But thank you for clarifying that in certain instances it will work (I though I had imagined those instances when it happened to me!) 😃:eahigh_file:
@PugLove888 Yup, I have it down to a science. I combine and troubleshoot the methods I mentioned and I can tackle the 'stuck stack' issues when they come up. The worse incident was when I had to move hundreds of 'dragon fruits' one at a time to clear out the personal inventories for the sims in one of my households after they got a household bill of over $150,000. I about fell off my chair. So I went after inventory in case that was being 'taxed' heavily. The kicker is that after I cleared out all of that personal inventory (main issue was a LOT of valuable garden produce- including dealing with some 'stuck' things in those stacks, which of course get stuck at the top of the stack to make it an ultra pain in the butt!) The household had over $2,000,000 after cashing in all that produce. Guess that explained the bill. Gee, what else are they gonna spend all that money on?! But... it turned out that the later bills were not high. So apparently you get charged a lot in bills to have huge inventory, but not for having mega cash?! Go figure. Only in the upside-down reality of The Sims. Bahahaha... 😃 😉
@SheriGR, that is some bill! Glad your Sims were able to pay it off and reduce future bills at the same time! I guess the Sims don't have an income tax, but they do have a steep property tax! 😮😃 Crummy how if the stuck item is at the top of the stack, how it makes the entire stack stuck! 😠 (That sounded like a tongue twister! 😃:eahigh_file: )
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