I've tried in a couple different households and bookshelves.
@mndysmsh A friend mentioned that perhaps, since we're seeing that sunburst behind the build & buy tools icon, if there's any chance that your game is in the process of some tutorial that has not completed, and could possibly be interfering with other play while incomplete?
Mine is doing the same thing. I’ve deleted the cache file, I’ve removed all cc/mods, and I’ve repaired the game. This is happening in different save games and all different lots too if that helps.
Apologies for the crappy photo.
@britt_sanderson Thank you for sharing the screenshot... It was helpful. I don't use Mods in Sims, but I'm told that some Mods have settings files in the Saves folder. If that's the case with any of the Mods you removed, you may want to remove those particular settings files. Also, when you removed the Mods, did you move the Mods folder out of the game to your desktop? If not, please do that. Then please remove the localthumbcache.package file again. When the game starts it will make a brand new Mods folder.
Also, a friend suggested to see if you had made any adjustments to the UI settings in the game. If you did, please try returning these settings to default and see if that makes a difference.
It finally worked! Thank you for your help. I ended up reverted all settings to default as well as removing thewhole mods folder, removing localthumbcache.package file and any extra files relating to my mods.
thanks again
@britt_sanderson You're very welcome! So glad to hear it worked! Thank you for letting us know, in case others run into the same issue, as hearing what helped for you can help them. 🙌
