Re: Base Neighborhoods missing. Sims 2 Ultimate Collection.

Sorry for the late reply. Ended up playing more than an hour but that's what happens when you play the Sims. Your method did the trick! I got my worlds back! Strange thing though. I didn't have any mods or CC installed this time around. I just installed it and they just weren't there. Thank you so much for your help!

@Electro_Blazer82 , most welcome! 

@emmamichelle1996 , most welcome! Happy Simming!

Hi, I’be had the same issue a couple of times now and found this thread really helpful - so thank you!

But I’m wondering where to go now. I’ve moved the Sims 2 folder to the desktop, played the new game etc and when I returned to my old game all was back to normal. But how do I move my original content back to the documents folder safely? I ask because I had the issue happen again and because the Sims 2 folder was already on the desktop I didn’t know how to repeat the steps to fix the neighbourhoods - when I tried I ended up deleting everything (I hadn’t been playing long so it wasn’t a huge loss). But I don’t want it to happen again!

This might be a really daft question (I only recently started replaying since I was a kid and I don’t have much computer knowledge!)

If anyone could give me any advice that would be great. 

@jobby64 , ok there are a couple of ways to solve this problem. The easiest is to simply rename the Sims 2 folder you move to your Desktop. That way your saved games and CC will be safe even if you have to do the same thing again. The other is to simply move the Sims 2 folder in the game to the trash.

Once the game is back to normal, open both your saved games folder and the new Sims 2 folder side by side. You should see a difference in some of the folders in that your moved folder may have more content such as your Downloads folder, the Teleport folder and Thumbnails (those I think those are the folders I may have missed some). Your saved games are in the Neighborhoods folder and if you only played say in Pleasantview, you'd only need to move the entire N001 folder to replace the new N001 folder in your Neighborhoods folder. 

You may also want to cull your CC (if you have a lot) to only include those pieces you use a lot. Mod The Sims has some great tools to use to do this and it can check to see if the CC is corrupted or not as well. 

Thanks for your help! I don't have much CC (but also don't know how much is considered a lot), but I'll go through it. Cheers!

Here i am in 2022 and would like to say thank you. This still helps because i just got a new laptop and had this issue. I didnt have mods or anything just wanted to reinstall it and worlds were missing so again thank you