Iv'e Lost Everything! I did eactlry what it said posted here http://forums.worldsims.org/showthread.php?t=4466&highlight=reinstall and I my family's aren't there!!!!:( I think i'm gonna be sick!
You uninstalled the game with the EXPANSION PACK installed, right? That would vaporize your character files, yes. Once you install the expansion pack, uninstalling vaporizes your character files because they won't be compatible with the base game that is left behind after uninstalling. Mirelly must not have warned you about that.
What happens is, I changed the copy of the folder after reinstalling to The Sims 2. Then the new copy made to The Sims 2 New. Everytime I go on the sims. It creates a new folder called The Sims 2. That's why it's ALWAYS blank. It keeps creating new folder's!!! But this is my 2nd time reinstalling. It worked perfectly last time! I uninstalled the expansion pack THEN TS2. Should I delete all new folders. Then extract or w/e the old copy to EB Games?
I'm totally not sure what you're saying. Except that you uninstalled the expansion pack, which destroys your character saves if you didn't specifically back them up to someplace else before doing so. Bad Mirelly.
Sorry. I shall explain CLEARYLY this time what I did. 1.)I did the first part of Mirelly's instructions. 2.) Uninstalled TS2U (I have a back up of ALL my files) 3.)Uninstalled TS2 4.) Installed both again 5.) Named the The Sims 2, The Sims 2 New 6.) Named Copy Of The Sims 2, The Sims 2 7.) Started game. 8.) none of my stuff there (extra neighborhood etc..) 9.)went back to the Eb folder 10.) there was another TS2 created inside that folder 11.) Named that TS2 New 12.) Same thing happened again Now I got TS2 New, TS2, TS2, TS23. Understand?
Nope. Totally and utterly baffled. You still have your files, or you've lost everything? Make up your mind.
Well, then you shouldn't have acted like you didn't have your files anymore! Go bug Mirelly some more.
You guys won't belive how FRUSTRATED I am getting! I just reinstalled again I finnaly got it to work succesfully. I started the game up worked great. Opened the game up everything was normal...except for spawn. Closed the game then open it again and my memories etc is gone again!! I DID ALL THAT FOR NOTHING! I AM GETTING SO FRUSTRATED! If anyone has any advice I will be EXTREMELY open to it!
When you reinstall, try this. Before installing Sims 2 University, I recommend that you copy the old Backup Data back to My Documents so that it could be converted over during your Sims 2 University Installation.
I got it fully installed and transfered over now. I just want Spawn etc gone! No matter HOW many times I reinstall I still have it!
adding to that, previous post. I can't see ANY hacks so there must be one hidden somewhere that is causing the game to create spawn!
Ooh I see I've been criticised again and by JMP. I think I'm gonna sob for a while and then I will set fire to my computer and stand around wailing and waving my fists at it and when the fireman comes to put it out I am going to get in his way so he gets frustrated and gets into his big red shiny truck and goes back to wherever it was he came from and then I expect I will discover that my butt is on fire and I will start hopping around like a puppy trying to bite its tail trying to beat out the flames until suddenly I collapse in a smoking heap and a geezer dressed in a dusty black cloak ambles over carrying a big scythe and a 3G phone hooked up to the infranet and thats when all my troubles will really start .... Now then Flamey, dear. Tell me. Who or what is Spawn and did Manager Josh's sensible advice to return the saved games folder before installing the EP result in your sudden admission of (at least a partial) success? Forgive me for coming across as cynical but I promised you no irrevocable damage so long as you followed my instructions. I meant that. (And JMP knew that, too, else he wouldn't have told you to quit bugging him and to bug me instead ) So long as you have a copy of your original My Documents/EA Games/Sims 2 folder you can always go back to where you were. Of course it does take a modicum of patience and a willingness (upon your part) to at least try to convey the impression that you have understood what you have read and have been asked to do you have taken more than the barest minimum of time in composing your messages that plead for help and advice when things have gone wrong that you take some trouble to record what you did ... as you did it ... like with a pencil and paper you report here what you did ... exactly ... so that there can be no misunderstandings I am done here. The ball, as they say, is your court sweetheart. I am not pissed off, just frustrated and I am NOT guessing cos I reckon that is exactly how you feel. Share with me, huh?
I said above what I did. If you want me to say again I will do so. I did exactly what you said Mirelly. Correctly, I AM very frustrated. I have re-installed the game 4 times now. My problem (that doesn't go away after re0installing) Is that all memories are gone. When a sim get's the option to go to work it is a blank square. I have to hover over it with my mouse to see what it says. When they talk their speech bubbles are scrambeld and I have Spawn. Which is a bad thing. Itis an option my sim has when speaking to another sim or when I click on the sim I am currently using. Example. When I click on a sim I am currently controling it says "Spawn..." as one of the main actions, I click on that and there is 3 more options ALL called spawn. When I click on one of the spawn's a blank square pops up. Then when I hover over it with my mouse it says Freestyle or Freestly For Tips. The action works properly but I have to do that to find out what option I just clicked on. When clciking on another sim all the option's like "Ventrilo Fart", " Hang Out etc... show up as spawn and blank square. Exactley the same very frustrating ESPECIALLY when you have to go through 13 "SPAWN'S" To get the option you want. Big Breath...... That Is my problem. Reinstalling does not help. I have a hidden hack or somthing I can't find!!!!! Also, I read Manager Josh's post AFTER I got the files finnaly trransfered over.
Flamey, listen. 1) Take a deep breath. 2) Walk away from the computer. Go take a hot bath and relax. 3) This problem is a known BUG. You (or I, or anyone else that has this problem) did nothing wrong. It is not something you downloaded. I don't know what causes it. The only thing that fixes it is a total clean install that I know of, because everything else I tried did not help. And we are not the only people having these problems. There are a lot of people talking about this at MTS2 and the official BBS. 4) I finally had to convince myself that it is just a game, that all the stress was not worth it, and do the clean reinstall so I could at least play my game. I've had no problems ever since. Now, I'm not saying for you to do this. I'm saying that's what I did. There could be a patch or a mod coming soon that fixes it. I'm sure that there are nice people out there with JMP's expertice who will make one if enough people keep having these problems. If you want to continue to keep your families and no other solutions come, that may be what you have to do. ((((Hugs)))) to you too, hon. I know, believe me, I know how much it frustrates you. It will get better. Like I said, there are tons of smart simmers who can help you. I'm not one of them. But, I can just offer hugs and understanding, because I spent a whole week and lost a ton of sleep trying to fix my sims.
How do I do a clean install without losing my families? I appreciate the understanding. Even tho it's just a game we spent SO much time doing it.
If you have "spawn", you definitely have a hack of some kind. The *EASY* way to deal with a hidden hack somewhere is indiscriminate mass-destruction. Kill 'em all, reinstall everything you actually want.
I agree with JMP on the "spawn" theory. I get "Spawn" when I use the debugging cheat and then click on a sim. Did you maybe save without telling it turning the cheat off? Could that have caused it? Or maybe there's a hack out there that works like the debugging cheat?
