avalonniasims The EA App error is common, sure, but it's not universal, meaning it tends to be on the user end outside of the occasional server issue. This isn't a server issue because when those happen, we see hundreds of posts, not just a few. So I'm trying to figure out what's happening on your end to trigger the error. And to be clear, the App should be more resilient and not throw errors at the first sign of trouble, but that's unfortunately not the case at present.
Anyway, try clearing some Windows temp files, as described here:
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