cannot edit pre-existing sims

"melissalungu;c-16823497" wrote:
I am having a serious issue with this. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to edit the relationships to give my sim 'Mel' her parents back. It says "cannot edit pre-existing sim" and I cannot give her a parent. She has a husband, 3 children and 3 cats. I can edit her husband to give him a parent, but not her. She is the only sim I am having trouble with.

I had to move all my sims over from my MacBook Pro to my main PC, (as we needed the space on the macbook) but it was a massive family with lots of generations. So I moved them all over individually (by saving the households to my library and uploading them to the gallery as a back up), and wanted to make them related again about by using the merge households and the cas.fulleditmode cheat. I moved over her two adult children and their own families, but cannot make them her children in the new game. Nor can I give her her parents back, or her sister. It's so frustrating. What is it about? I had MCCC but removed all the mods as I wondered if that was causing the issue. Strangely, I can give her husband a parent (and they were created at the exact same time, her and her husband) so why can she not have one? Why is she registering as the only pre-existing sim who cannot be edited? Is there another workaround? I can't think of any other way to do this. I couldn't find an option to help in MCCC either...

I'll have to test this out later today; I know the Relationships section has the feature but not sure how it works with creating parents for existing Sims. I've used it once to make a Sim a brother to a couple of Sims; he was technically their step-brother but when I moved the teens in with him I was worried that he'd autonomously Woohoo with his stepsister and that kind of icked me out. :o