HELP: Cannot start because the below file appears to be corrupted.
I am about to lose my mind. I abandoned The Sims 4 for about a year because I came across this issue.
"Cannot start because the below file appears to be corrupted. If this file is a Mod please remove it and try again. If not, please repair or reinstall the game via Origin."
What happened before:
I re-downloaded my Mods and Custom Contents after deleting them for storage last year because I was going to school and needed space for academics. My process of downloading is: I download ten Mods/CCs then enter the game to test the mods. I had issues with Mods before so I became paranoid when downloading new CCs because they may break my game, but even old CCs could be outdated. I had no issues for a while until I finished downloading all the female and male hair CCs when I suddenly got the pop-up. A bunch of files were corrupted; after removing the Mod the pop-up told me to remove it and try again, and another error popped up with another corrupted Mod. I remember all of the hair CCs I downloaded from JoshSeo's were corrupted, so I had to delete all of them because I thought it had something to do with their CCs. Until I got a pop-up after another pop-up with different CCs from different creators.
Eventually, I got frustrated and just deleted all my Mods.
What happened now:
Three days ago, I started re-downloading my Mods and CCs. I really want to play. In fact, I already started playing. I have a lot of CCs, but I downloaded only about 13% of my CCs. It's already a lot, but not exactly half of what I had. I was hoping I wouldn't come across the same issue I had months ago, and to my disappointment, I did anyway.
Again, the issue popped up when I finished downloading all my hair CCs for females.
But... I am so confused because the "corrupted mods" worked perfectly fine until I downloaded a few more, and all of a sudden, everything seems to be corrupted now? Huh?
The file I attached is one of the screenshots of the pop-up error I am receiving. The corrupted package file is SYB_Millennial_Hanging_plant_V3.package. This CC worked PERFECTLY FINE before I downloaded the last few hair CCs and the game just won't open anymore. I don't know if the last CCs I downloaded are the cause of this error.
I have:
✓ Repaired the game multiple times.
✓ Removed localthumbcache.
✓ Reinstalled the game.
✓ Removed the Mods and opened the game. The game worked without all of my Mods, of course. I placed the Mods back and I got the pop-up again.
✓ The EA App, not Origin.
My Mac:
Macbook Pro, M1, 2020
I would be grateful for clear, straightforward explanations as I’m not very familiar with how this site works. I don’t mean to sound ignorant, I just find this site a bit confusing since I don’t use it often.
I might reply slow.
I hope we can solve this. I just want to play the game. Thank you.
