Everything that can go wrong, is!
Brynne:
Good God, what have I done? My game is suddenly as buggy as ever. As you may know, I've been painstakingly going through my character files, memories, cleaning things up, etc. and all was going well. Now it's not. I have the jump bug for the bed and hot tub, my sims cannot use the phone (it disappears from the queue as soon as I put it up), and when I looked in simpe, to my horror there are copies of many of my sims, with "no character data". What I suspect is the culprit is an occupied lot I moved to the bin. But before you rip my lips off, I did not know it was occupied when I moved it. I explained this briefly in the neighborhood terrain surgery thread, but I'll try again. There was a lot embedded in a mountain that I discovered only by accident when I moused over it and it showed up red. It was of no use to me where it was, so I decided to lotbin it, thinking it was *only* a lot. What harm could come from that? I got a message "Are you sure you want to move 'modern villa' to the Lots and Houses bin?", which surprised me, as I thought it was an empty lot. I thought, what the hell, okay. I'll just move this unoccupied, empty house to the bin. No problem. When I grabbed it for replacement in the hood, that's when I saw that there was a family in the house. So I unknowingly lotbinned an occupied house, which I know is an evil, evil thing to do. I have not downloaded any occupied lots, so am I correct in my assumption that this is the root of my "no character data" multiple files, and, perhaps, the phone and jump-bug problem? I can't think of anything else that could have done it. If so, will removing these extra copies help resolve my problem? I looked at the files, and the copies have no relationships to anyone other than maybe phantom sims living in their phantom households, so I'm hoping I can delete them and continue with my fine-tooth comb-through of my real neighborhood files.
LK:
Wow. Sucks for you. :-\
syberspunk:
gah? Sorry to hear that. Man... but I sympathize as I'm sure I've done some equally bone-headed things and I would most likely probably also lotbin an occupied house that I thought was unoccupied. :P Sorry, no offense about the bone-headed comment. Hehe.
Anyhew, just so's I know, where exactly was this lot that you found hiding in a mountain, just so that I don't repeat this error by accident myself. lol
And... if this only recently happened, hopefully then all the no character data files will be numbered as the most recently added and hopefully you can delete all of those without a problem if they are at the end of the list.
Before I knew about the lotbin issue, I had moved in two families from my sister's game, and since then have created several other sims and added Uni to my game. ::) So it's kind of too late for me to try and clean up those files. *sighs* I'm settling for trudging along until my game blows up into a bfbvfos.
Ste
gali:
Don't you have a backupped copy of the neighbourhood, to play it again? (I backup each 3-4 days the neighbourhood, just in case).
And, do you have a saved Downloads folder? I save it each 3-4 days.
Paste a previous backupped neighbourhood.
Paste your saved Downloads folders again.
Usually, when I try to move a house to the house bin, I get a message that I have to VISIT this house first, then move it to the house bin. Didn't you get this message? Weird.
JM will "kill" me, but the easiest backup is done with the Enhanser - it has many backups, with dates of the backup. The SimPe backups only the last one.
I can play in Strangetown, make a lot of backups, and then decide to play it from the beginning - restoring the first backup, then return to the last play, by restoring the last backup.
Brynne:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2005 August 01, 18:23:35
gah? Sorry to hear that. Man... but I sympathize as I'm sure I've done some equally bone-headed things and I would most likely probably also lotbin an occupied house that I thought was unoccupied. :P Sorry, no offense about the bone-headed comment. Hehe.
Heyyyyyy, I resemble that remark. It was an accident!!!
Quote from: syberspunk on 2005 August 01, 18:23:35
And... if this only recently happened, hopefully then all the no character data files will be numbered as the most recently added and hopefully you can delete all of those without a problem if they are at the end of the list.
They are all at the end of the list. That's why I'm hoping it's not too late. Actually, I'm looking at a backup from last Friday before it happened. Of course, using that would mean losing all the changes I've made to the memories and such and I'd pretty much be starting over, but I'm worried about unforeseen long-term consequences of this current 'hood. Dammit.
Oh, and about where that lot was, it was a house I built with a family I forgot about, so you won't have to worry about that. :P
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