Crashing issue with old files in TRAY folder

Through trial and error, much copying, must pasting, much restarting the game to see if it crashes it seems that somthing in my old tray folder (I've had to remove it from the sims 4 folder) is causing the game to crash on startup. Any ideas on what could be causing the problem. I've tried copying in the blueprint, bpi and trayitem files into the folder (haven't tried the other items) and it will crash while trying to start the game. Am I seriously going to have to copy and load each one to see what is causing the problem or resave everyting I had in there? 1591 files worth?

There are Household binary files and HHI files, Room and SGI files as well. Can someone enlighten me as to what those all are please? I think I know what Room files are and I'm assuming Household binary files are sims but I'm not sure.

14 Replies

crinrict
Hero+
12 years ago
Agreed.
Anonymous
12 years ago
As far as I noticed there are trayitems files that keeps being written over each time the game is started. Which I think has to do with the
Gallery - my library.
1. I removed and saved to the desktop the trayitem to a folder named temptray ( I had around 246 items.). (Sort them by date most recent to the oldest
only remove the trayitem files with the same date.)
2. Added five at a time to the Games active Tray folder. (The more I added the longer it took to respond.( 02 sec. without rewritten trayitems files to
1 min. 30 sec. 63 rewritten trayitems put back). Stopped there because it was taking so long to come back and run, between the Plumbob and
the Sims Animated Sequence ( Ex.: rocketship, Tiki bar, Sim on the floor sleeping and so on.)
3. Decided to save the documents sims 4 folder to the desktop. I uninstalled and reinstalled sims 4 game files. Put the tray folder, saves and everything
else I wanted to put back. Ran and had the same problem as above.
4. So I started the Game and went to the Gallery - my library, Deleted all but what I needed to play the Households that i have.
5. Restarted the game. Now it is back to 02 sec. between the Plumbob and the Sims Animated Sequence ( Ex.: rocketship, Tiki bar, Sim on the floor
sleeping and so on.)
6. Went to the Gallery and added a few Sims into my library. (Did step 5 again and it worked like it did before the update (except missing what I had in
my library (but I can deal with that).
<<<<<<<<<I HOPE THIS HELPS ANYONE HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM>>>>>>>>
BlueBlack007
Seasoned Ace
12 years ago
No it did'nt help me, i had almost 600 creations in my library that i made myself , and did alot of work on them, now the ones that were not in the gallery are now gone, and the ones that i could find in gallery, i added back, but game wont load up if i add them back, so i basically cant have my creations i made in my library, the game wont load up for me, ive waited 30 mins or more and nothinng, had to empty tray folder yet again, GRRRR!!!!!, this game makes me so mad.
Anonymous
12 years ago
I know what you mean. This took away a lot of the fun I was having with the game and I've just archived my old tray folder for now until they fix this (if they ever do, I'm losing interest in this game quick because of issues like this.) I've barely played it since. That advanced tab really made me mad after wasting hours thinking the game was messed up (because it is) when it kept crashing or freezing up and then I couldn't see anything in my gallery. I think I've spent more time in this forum trying to figure out what's going on than probably actually playing, ugh.