Blank want icons since OFB - should I worry?
cwykes:
thank you Jordi and ZZ - I have the strong feeling I should have known that it wasn't just the extra character files :-[ I'd better have another go at cleaning that sim out of the 'hood completely.
re the family unknown, again :-[ should have known that's what family unknown was for, my excuse is my sims don't die.. So I don't worry about the maxis ancestors without character files, BUT there are a few living sims with a family whose instance number is also in the family unknown list. Do I worry about that. They are of course maxis sims: Consort capp and Bottom summerdream There are a couple of NPCs with family unknown as well.
goes off to delete SWAF file number 5 muttering... there must be a better way!
Jordi - do you think the DNA files need tackling too? ZZ hasn't done that one either..
ZZ - households and families are two different things for me as well - the UK stats service defines them differently. Household is the collection of people living in the house. 8 students in a house is 8 families.
ZephyrZodiac:
But one household! I think maybe the British Government and all it's Quangos is a little more precise than Maxis! (Now all the US readers will want to know what the British government has to do with extinct ancestors of the horse!)
Veronaville is about the most badly construct hood ever! Antonio Monty resurrected his brother, no bother at all, but his wife was unresurrectable, as all her character data had been wiped - she was like the non-Darleen Darleen, if you see what I mean! And that, I think, is the root of the problem, a lot of these dangling SWAFs are actually created by Maxis. In the case of Darleen, I think they must have played around with moving her from one lot to another, then moved the house into the bin after she died there. Same with Skip. Michael, they must at some stage have moved to the goth house, as his ghost appears there as well as at the Caliente house. They also played around with names since he is not Michael Caliente, and Dina is not Dina Bachelor. Little did they know, way back then, the problems they were leaving around - but they still haven't learned their lesson! Take a look at the Bakery family - they are a total mess!
Jelenedra:
I had this error when I first installed OFB. I wiped my downloads folders and started from custom scratch and that seemed to fix my blank want icons.
Of course, I am notorious for wiping my neighborhoods and starting over. So that could've been it as well. I know when I got OFB, and cleared everything along with the download folders, so I might've inadvertantly erased all my corrupted files.
Hegelian:
I've had this (blank wants slots) with one or two sims on each lot after installing OFB. I was able to correct it by either deleting the affected sims and saving the lot (they appear at the mailbox when you reload the lot), or by letting them go through a sleep cycle and rolling new wants when they wake up. You could also try sending them on dates, since this spins new wants also. YMMV!
jrd:
Quote from: cwykes on 2006 June 12, 14:04:45
Jordi - do you think the DNA files need tackling too? ZZ hasn't done that one either..
Errant Sim DNA is mostly harmless, since if a new Sim is created this new DNA should overwrite the old data. I still recommend cleaning it if possible though.
One problem is that Sim DNA cannot safely be deleted for existing Sims, and SimPE does not show to which Sim a given DNA string belongs.
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