My sim has vanished without a trace.
jolrei:
Quote from: Emma on 2008 April 21, 14:14:01
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 April 21, 14:05:43
Isn't this a movie where Nicole Kidman loses her daughter on an airplane and is the only person in the world that even remembers that she ever had a daughter? Spooky.
I think you mean Jodie Foster. :P
I was really hoping I didn't, but you're right.
@SarahKOM: I am thinking that rebuilding the hood may be the best option. You might try doing a "Deleted 2" process on your sim, provided you can find any remnant of the sim with the lot debugger for "prep for delete". If you can't do that, it becomes iffy whether you will find any of the other bits of the character in SimPE to complete the deletion.
Do you recall what the status of the sim was when you saved and quit the last time the sim was around? Were they, for example "off world" at work, on the cell phone, etc.? Any errors during the save (any failed save, crash, etc.)?
If the sim shows up in the family icons (i.e. s/he has a picture at the left of the screen), what happens if you move the family out of the house and move them into a new house (try a maxis default house, just for the experiment to ensure there is no CC in the house)?
Emma:
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 April 21, 18:24:06
Quote from: Emma on 2008 April 21, 14:14:01
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 April 21, 14:05:43
Isn't this a movie where Nicole Kidman loses her daughter on an airplane and is the only person in the world that even remembers that she ever had a daughter? Spooky.
I think you mean Jodie Foster. :P
I was really hoping I didn't, but you're right.
For once :D
SarahKOM:
Jolrei, as far as I know she was dancing in her dorm room.
She doesn't show anywhere else except the dorm room door picture and I don't think the lot debugger could find her. Hence, I'm restalling. Agin. Ugh.
unregister:
Quote from: SarahKOM on 2008 April 21, 13:24:15
Two errors came up when I loaded that dorm, but I can't remember the wording.
Just curious, when the error messages came up, did you hit delete? I had a sim go into an error, reset, cancel, nothing worked, same error kept returning. I had to hit delete. This cause my sim to be gone from the game.
i hadn't saved in a while, but I did have a more recent backup. I replaced his charector file with the backup file. Anyway, had problems as it really screwed up memories as a sibling had been born before the delete but after the backup. The games was still playable, just memories in that family were messed up.
jsalemi:
Quote from: WandaAnn on 2008 April 22, 16:41:31
Just curious, when the error messages came up, did you hit delete? I had a sim go into an error, reset, cancel, nothing worked, same error kept returning. I had to hit delete. This cause my sim to be gone from the game.
i hadn't saved in a while, but I did have a more recent backup. I replaced his charector file with the backup file. Anyway, had problems as it really screwed up memories as a sibling had been born before the delete but after the backup. The games was still playable, just memories in that family were messed up.
FYI, deleting an active sim from a lot doesn't actually delete the sim from the game. If you save the lot and exit to the neighborhood, and then go back into the lot, you'll find the deleted sim standing by the mailbox. This is how you do an 'ultimate reset' on a somewhat borked sim when all other tools fail.
That's why the sim's memories were borked when you restored a backup of just that sim -- you overwrote the proper version of the sim that would have just returned if you saved and reloaded. As it is, you've probably sent that hood spiraling towards a BVBVFS, as messed-up memories tend to propagate over time, eventually corrupting the memories of other sims unrelated to the family. I suggest you put the lot debugger on that family's lot, and use all of its tools to clean out trash and corrupt memories -- that may save your hood, or at the least, buy you time before it implodes.
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