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BlueRafael
Seasoned Novice
8 years ago

Can't grab & drag plates or food dishes

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansion, game, and stuff packs.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Make food, and leave it on a counter. I don't think it matters if it's a single serving, or a larger dish.
What happens when the bug occurs? You can't grab & drag the dish to put it in the fridge, or throw it away. The game acts as though I'm moving the camera around. I can still grab & drag other things; I was able to grab a dog toy.
What do you expect to see? Being able to grab & drag plates, and dishes of food.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. Only happened after one of two things; after installing dogs & cats, or after cleaning caches, &"repairing" the game. I would also like to note, that nothing prompted me to repair my game. I had not seen any major problems. Origin didn't need to download anything in the repair process. I also didn't have to delete many cache files, since there were none. The only files I deleted were in the lotcacheddata folder, but they hadn't been accessed since 2014.

I'm still able to tell my sim to clean up, and put away, I'm just so used to doing it myself.

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  • This is an old thread, but I am reviving it for a possible fix, as others may still be looking for a solution here as I was.

    After trying a number of things, I was able to fix this is a fairly easy way. I could not drag plates any longer for some reason, like the OP. What eventually worked was simply saving (to be safe) and then going to Manage Worlds. Once there, I evicted the household. After I evicted them, I went right to Manage Households and put them back in the house. When I started playing again, I could drag plates again! And better still, everyone was still doing the things they were doing before the eviction, which I did not expect. So... that worked really well for me and it was easy!

    I hope that helps someone. :D

  • FoxParagorn's avatar
    FoxParagorn
    3 years ago

    Even if it works having to dismantle a full home and place it back again just to get rid of one plate seems TRULY exesive.
    At this point such bug should be fixed after so long.

  • EA_Mako's avatar
    EA_Mako
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    3 years ago

    Hey there,
     
    This thread is quite a few years old and is being locked here to avoid further necroposting.
     
    Feel free to create a new thread if there's a subject you're wanting to discuss that doesn't have a more recent topic, thanks!

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