I tried to launch The Sims 4, and I received a message that the game could not start because of a corrupted file. I removed the file, but it said the corrupted file was still there. I have no idea what this ~BROMIUM means. How do I fix this?
@aucqz16dqw4c Inside your Mods folder, you have a folder called Pregnancy Overhaul, and inside that is a folder called ~BROMIUM, and it has a .package file inside that the game is reading as corrupted. If you don't see a ~BROMIUM folder inside Pregnancy Overhaul, that would be odd, but the fix there is to remove the entire Pregnancy Overhaul folder.
If you want to use the other parts of this mod, try downloading a fresh copy. Or you could create a new folder inside Mods called Pregnancy Overhaul and only copy over the files and folders that you can see.
@puzzlezaddict I don't have a folder anywhere called ~BROMIUM, so I recreated the Pregnancy Overhaul folder. But then the game said a different mod was corrupted. When I removed that mod, it said I still had that corrupted file.
@aucqz16dqw4c I think you'll just need to move the Mods folder to the desktop (or delete it outright) and let the game generate a new one.
You're probably fine, but I'd suggest running a virus scan as well, just in case. If you're interested, download Malwarebytes (the free trial is fine) from here:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download
Open it, click Scan > Custom Scan > Configure Scan, check all the boxes both for scans and for all your drives, and let it do its job. This could take anywhere from 10 minutes to multiple hours, depending on how much data your computer has, so you may want to set it to run while you're doing something else. Feel free to attach its report so I can take a look.
