Pick up unowned items
I have moved my family to another house and I forgot to put my children’s baby print in the inventory. Now I came back to the old house and it says I don’t own the item. I tried to move another famil...
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There is a way to get the item owned again if you can get the item into a sim's inventory by dragging. If you can, you can use the Gift option in the Friendly>Affection menu to gift it from one sim to another. The item will become owned by the receiving sim. I have not tried it with baby prints or photos, but it does work for the collectibles.
Hope this helps.
@CGrant56 I tried this but I can’t drag it to the inventory. I logged in the owner of the house’s family and still couldn’t drag it. I tried that several times ugh
Well, if you can't drag it into the inventory then it's become detached from the sim who originally owned it. So, since it has, it can be deleted in build mode if you want to do that since it doesn't belong to the current family in that house. If you want one for the home of the sim that left it behind, you can probably get one from the debug items in the build catalog if you're willing to go to the trouble. The one you get from debug won't be attached to your sim and won't give you any mouse over message of who's print it is, or be able to be put in a sim's inventory but you can at least have one on the wall. You'll have to use the debug unlock cheat to get the debug items to show in the build buy catalog though and it might take you a while to find it there as there are hundreds of debug items. You can't really effectively search them either so that means going through the catalog one row at the time until you find it. It'll act just like a painting or wall mounted item in the catalog and can only be moved, etc. in build mode.
Hope this helps.
I'm so sorry you lost the items. I know it's not fun to lose items you felt defined the family growing together.
