Split character files?
Regina:
I will try that Miros--thank you! His thumbnail is showing in the game fine, just not in SimPE. When I saw that I nearly panicked--reminded of what happened to my original game after installing Unleashed. People were losing sims right and left because of corrupted files. In those cases, the thumbnails in the game went bad with pictures of upside-down witches and such.
Jordi, I went through all my neighborhoods' character files today and every food server that spawned AFTER Pets has the weird file names. Before Pets they don't. I hadn't yet checked all of them--which is why I didn't want to blame the whole thing on them being food servers.
I just have no idea if the weird face thing was related to him being a server or not.
SimDebster:
Okay everyone, I am re-opening this thread (in spite of the scary picture staring at me right now) and everyone saying that necromancy is bad, blah, blah, blah.
I just started having this problem with the *.1.package files. This started with the second 2nd patch from Maxis for Seasons. In my case, it is not NPCs, it is any new character that I create or is born in game. It is also not caused by Pescado's lobonanny hack because I just tried it out in a squeaky clean game and it still happened. It is a big problem for me because after playing and exiting the game, and then upon re-entering the game the sims disappear. This first happened in my main 5 generation game. The babies disappeared when I opened the game up to play, so I figured that it was a fluke and installed my last backup game and tried again. Same thing happened, so I figured my neighborhood was corrupt which left me without much enthusiasm to continue playing the sims, so I gave up and started playing Caesar IV. I just got the urge to play the sims again, so I figured that I would start from scratch. All my created character's files have the .1.package files. I exited the game, restarted it and sure enough, those sims were no longer there.
Has anyone else experienced this? And if you have what did you do to fix the problem? If nobody knows then I guess I will file a report to Maxis (which will probably be filed in the circular file). Other than that, I can try to uninstall then reinstall Seasons and the H&M stuff, then only patch up to the first 2nd patch (or even no patches at all since I never experienced what they claimed they fixed). The only problem with this is that when the next EP or SP comes out they will make me patch again. It is looking like my Sims 2 days are numbered. No sense in getting more EPs if I cannot play the game. I am very frustrated.
dizzy:
My guess is the objects.package file got corrupted. If you can find that in the "compressed.zip" on one of the Seasons EP discs, you can just replace the one in you have in:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Seasons\TSData\Res\Objects\
Or thereabouts.
SimDebster:
Thanks Dizzy. That would certainly be better than reinstalling. I will try it tonight. I sure hope that it works.
SimDebster:
Well, that did not work.
I first replaced objects.package for Seasons, then H&M Stuff, and then finally the base game. None of these worked. I just finished uninstalling and reinstalling Seasons and H&M Stuff. This has not fixed it either. Although, the Seasons install did an auto patch even though I had the internet shut down through my firewall. I even uninstalled just H&M Stuff, thinking that it might be the culprit, but that was a no go as well. I do not know what else to do other than uninstall everything and start over. I really do not feel like doing this. Is it possible that my hard drive is fighting for space? It shows that I have 38.4 GB free. Does anyone know how much XP Professional takes up? I am grasping at straws here, because it seems that this problem right now is only affecting me. There has to be something that has happened since June 18, which was the last date that I had created a Sim without this problem.
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