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troshalom
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
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Trouble adding parent

Microsoft wiped my C drive and although my game was installed on the K drive and the files were saved on the K drive, I lost all of my saved games -- over 840 hours of playing time, videos, screenshots, generations down the drain.

Thankfully, I saved most of my sims at various life stages to the Gallery as well as most of my custom builds, so I don't have to start from scratch.

I am having a problem with one family. I want to add the father to a family, and I cannot. Even with cas.fulleditmode the game is only allowing me to add him as a roommate or brother. I can't deage the family because the married couple has a teenage daughter and a little girl. I aged the father to Elder and the game still will not allow me to add him as the father.

What can I do?

  • troshalom's avatar
    troshalom
    7 years ago

    Hi BlackjackWidow unfortunately all of the games are gone. I know it is highly unusual for a Microsoft tech to do that. That particular tech messed up big time. So, Microsoft spent two weeks rebuilding my computer. And when I took my computer to the Microsoft Store they told me the K drive was intact, but somehow when they reinstalled my image from 2018 files were lost in the process including all of the Sims 4 folder. My Documents folder is still on the K drive tho.

    BTW All -- I did not get a message popping up on my machine, I actually contacted Microsoft directly after the May update and they remote accessed my computer. So, I wasn't contacted by hackers or had a virus or ransomware.

    But I did figure out the issue I was having. Malcolm still has parents listed, although they are blank. So I just added Geoffrey as Malcolm's wife Nessa's father to try to rebuild my generational family that way.

    I was able to do that using the cas full edit mode, as family_parent 739164183140847203 739164182935718089 family_son_daughter didn't work.

    Thanks all for trying to help me out.

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  • troshalom's avatar
    troshalom
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago

    Hi BlackjackWidow unfortunately all of the games are gone. I know it is highly unusual for a Microsoft tech to do that. That particular tech messed up big time. So, Microsoft spent two weeks rebuilding my computer. And when I took my computer to the Microsoft Store they told me the K drive was intact, but somehow when they reinstalled my image from 2018 files were lost in the process including all of the Sims 4 folder. My Documents folder is still on the K drive tho.

    BTW All -- I did not get a message popping up on my machine, I actually contacted Microsoft directly after the May update and they remote accessed my computer. So, I wasn't contacted by hackers or had a virus or ransomware.

    But I did figure out the issue I was having. Malcolm still has parents listed, although they are blank. So I just added Geoffrey as Malcolm's wife Nessa's father to try to rebuild my generational family that way.

    I was able to do that using the cas full edit mode, as family_parent 739164183140847203 739164182935718089 family_son_daughter didn't work.

    Thanks all for trying to help me out.

  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago
    @troshalom Yea, a lot of the direct relationship bit commands don't work. They are severely flaky. I tried using one to set the co-worker bit once, I tried it on 6 sims, it only worked on 2.

    If you can figure out how to do it in CAS, it's usually the best method.
  • I have this same problem with lots of my families and I don't know what to do. I tried with the Pleasant twins and I had to delete them as I already created their parents. Then I had to recreate them so I didn't have the same problem. But now I'm trying to do it with the Curious siblings I downloaded from FGG and I have the same issue. Can't add their parents. Hopefully someone can get the solution...