Ideas
Let's hope this will be fixed tomorrow. I don't want to get my hopes up too much though after last time when the issue got much worse not better.
Luckily I saved a back-up before the last, bad patch which I can roll back to. My current save is corrupted with several households that I opened before realising and which are now full of black photos and white paintings, so I plan to junk it.
I therefore have a question for people more knowledgeable than me. Should I download the patch tomorrow with my corrupted save and check round some households I haven't opened yet in there to see if all is well this time, and assuming it is only then replace it with my clean save? Or should I put my clean save in the game first and update that with the patch? The latter seems like a risk so I am inclined to do the former, but which is the better order to do things in do people know? Or does it just not matter. Any advice gratefully received.
I am a bit concerned the laundry list mentions the black photos but not the white paintings. A half fix is no good - I want to play properly again. I have been playing a very limited game ever since Business and Hobbies came out to avoid ruining my favourite sim families, and in the past few weeks hardly at all as there is no point moving forward in a save I plan to junk.
If I were you I would try updating with your corrupted save. It's already corrupted anyway and you've already chosen to destroy it... unless it goes well.
Before I would update a clean save, I would save a copy (backup) of it in a safe place.