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emilyreeed's avatar
2 years ago
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My expansion packs and kits are not working in my game when it says I own them.

Hi!

I have seen many other people with this same issue, but I am getting no solutions that have helped. I have purchased the City Living expansion pack, the Cats and Dogs expansion pack, the Blooming Rooms kit, the Everyday Clutter kit, and the Pastel Pop kit almost a year ago. My issue is, none of these will show up in my game! I have tried every solution under the sun, repairing the game, repairing Origin, deleting and reinstalling Origin, etc. Nothing works! It says that I own these kits within the Origin app and within the actual Sims 4 game. I am on a MacBook Air and have never had these problems up until today after not playing The Sims for awhile. What can I do? I feel like I have wasted all of my money on things I cannot even use and it’s very frustrating.

  • @emilyreeed  Your screenshots show that the folders for your packs are in entirely the wrong location.  I can't remember if this was the old location before Apple forced EA to move the packs' data to its own folder, but that happened back in April of 2020.

    Given how many folders are in the wrong location, your best bet is to completely uninstall Sims 4 and reinstall it.  This shouldn't delete your saves, but make a backup just in case (it's good practice in general).  Saves are located in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves, and you can copy the entire saves folder and paste it somewhere else.

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  • @emilyreeed  Does Origin think these kits are installed?  If not, you should see a Download button.

    Please also run searches for the folders for a couple of these packs.  Go into Applications > Utilities, open Terminal, and input this:

    find / -name "EP03" 2>/dev/null

    Then use cmd-shift-4 to take a screenshot, and post it here.  Repeat for this:

    find / -name "EP04" 2>/dev/null

    EP03 corresponds to City Living, and EP04 to Cates & Dogs.  If you have Sims 3 installed, you may get more results, which is fine; the file paths will tell me what I'm looking at.  Feel free to black out your username in the screenshots, but please leave everything else intact.

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    emilyreeed
    2 years ago

    Hi! Thank you so much for trying to help me :D. Here is the information you requested. Just to let you know, I do have custom content and gameplay mods installed, which I noticed was coming up during the terminal search.

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    emilyreeed
    2 years ago

    I also probably should have included this in my last response, but this is what it shows on my Origin. It says that these packs are installed, but when I enter my game and try to enter Brindleton Bay or San Myshuno, it tells me that these packs are not installed. The screenshots provided shows that it says the packs are installed on Origin, and then the second screenshot is what I see when I enter my game.

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    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @emilyreeed  Your screenshots show that the folders for your packs are in entirely the wrong location.  I can't remember if this was the old location before Apple forced EA to move the packs' data to its own folder, but that happened back in April of 2020.

    Given how many folders are in the wrong location, your best bet is to completely uninstall Sims 4 and reinstall it.  This shouldn't delete your saves, but make a backup just in case (it's good practice in general).  Saves are located in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves, and you can copy the entire saves folder and paste it somewhere else.

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    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @emilyreeed  Sims 4.  Origin is (probably) fine.

    If you want to save time, install the Sims 4 base game and just City Living or Cats & Dogs, then if it doesn't load in-game run the corresponding command again and post the result.

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    emilyreeed
    2 years ago

    Okay, I see what you mean now. I am doing that right now and will update you when it’s finished downloading!

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    emilyreeed
    2 years ago

    Oh my gosh!!! Thank you so much! Your solution worked. I am so so grateful for you!

  • The base game will not re-install because it wants to update Origin which is no longer there.

    I would ask that you upload a screen shot showing where the folders are correctly located