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LadyGray01
Seasoned Ace
12 months ago

Have you ever had a lot disappear from the gallery?

I started with again with an empty world and was placing all my saved houses and families. I discovered one house was missing from my library. I must have deleted it at some point for some reason I can't fathom. Anyway, no biggie, I knew it was in the gallery. Or it was... it's no longer there. All of my other builds are there, but not that one. I did a search to look at other people's builds because I was considering using one of those to start with rather than starting over from scratch. As if to rub salt in the wound, I found my build in someone else's catalogue without the "original by" tag. I know some people might think it's nuts because it's a Sims 2 house and they are all going to look similar, but I know this is my build. I'm not going to bother the other person, we all know this is a risk when you upload things and clearly they made enough changes to get the "original by" tag to go away. I've decided to just start again from scratch and make a few changes. I'm just so aggravated. Has anyone else had this happen?

18 Replies

  • Silvermoon68's avatar
    Silvermoon68
    New Vanguard
    10 months ago

    I was wondering this about mine, I posted about it a few days ago, I've had a lot of houses suddenly disappear and the frustrating thing is they're all the ones with my highest download count. I don't get thousands of downloads but one I had 1,500 and I was so happy because I put a lot of work into my builds, and I try to always build base game for anyone who don't have the packs etc.

  • devilknigh71's avatar
    devilknigh71
    New Scout
    9 months ago

    It was, until I realized that I could create something completely new. 

  • Currently about 3/4 of my shared gallery is gone. My personal library is fine, and backed up. But a lot of those had quite a few downloads, so I'm not thrilled. The gallery tends to get overwhelmed with traffic over weekends and holidays and slows to a crawl when trying to load, so I'm hoping that's all it is and everything will be there when I check it another day. But I'm not hopeful.

  • I just looked mine up in the browser and in-game. Varied results, but neither way seemed to bring up full results (if any), aside from my most recent uploads. Then I tried on the in-game filter selecting 'most popular', then that brought up tons of stuff that was not showing &/or populating. Then I looked at the bug report that Crinrict linked to and it looks like they did not get results with 'most popular' selected, but I up-voted it anyway, and will add my information about the odd gallery results. So, experimenting with settings seemed to help for me, but adding search terms seemed to help for them. For both of us apparently the search and results/loading is behaving in a buggy way. Up-side to this may be that there is not an issue with your lots being gone, perhaps the issue is just that the gallery is currently being temperamental (&/or buggy) about loading them properly?
    Edit: Actually, when I did the 'most popular' search I did select the 'user ID' and had my name in the box, so that may also be a similarity.

  • LadyGray01's avatar
    LadyGray01
    Seasoned Ace
    14 hours ago

    Thanks for your reply! That's what it is. Selecting "Most Popular" made the rest of my lots show up. I'm glad it's a filter issue and my lots are still there.

  • LadyGray01's avatar
    LadyGray01
    Seasoned Ace
    14 hours ago

    It is, thanks. Trying different filters made them show up.