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wiintersoldierr
5 years ago

Disappearing Sims

I have the Sims 2: Super Collection installed on my Mac computer. I’ve noticed over the last few days that Sims seem to be randomly disappearing from all of my neighborhoods. NPCs, people living in houses, all of it. 

I once heard a theory that my game might be too full of files so it just begins overwriting things. But I haven’t installed anything new in months, and I’m not sure what to delete in order to stop this problem from happening. I am afraid to keep playing my game in fear of losing things I’ve made. 

I know Sims were once there, because the image of the family when you click on a house seems normal — but inside the house, the icon of the Sim is gone and most of the memories have been replaced with $Subject. 

any idea how to help?

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  • wiintersoldierr's avatar
    wiintersoldierr
    5 years ago

    @Tremayne4260 Yes, I would love to! Sims kept disappearing from my saved games, and I don't know why ☹️ I would love to get them back and see if that stops happening!

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    Tremayne4260
    Hero
    5 years ago

    @wiintersoldierr , ok, adding back saved games is a bit tricky, but not terribly so. First you need to open your Sims 2 folder in your Library and then open up the Sims 2 folder you saved to your Desktop with your saved games. Now, it would be wonderful if you could simply add back the folders, but you can't as the game won't recognize your folders. So, what you need to do is to open up the Neighborhood folder you have saved games in (so for example Pleasantview is  N001) from your Desktop folder and then open up the same folder in your Library Sims 2 folder. (You should have two files open at the same time). You can copy and paste the files from your Desktop folder into the Library folder and answer "Yes" to copying/overwriting the files in your Library folder. Do this for all the files within the Neighborhood folder (and there are a lot of files there, but you need to copy over all of them). You can simply transfer them over as well. 

    I hope this makes sense and if not, please feel free to ask me to clarify anything for you. 🙂

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