2006 holiday mini-pack problem

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jrd:
Sorry, I don't use DRM-infested Crippleware so I can't give advise here. Contact EA "support".

Giggy:
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There, look for a file named "H05.bundle.package" or "H06.bundle.package". They contain the holiday data.

jrd:
H05 (Holiday '05) is the old stuff, H06 (Holiday '06) is the new stuff.
Clothes are not in there but are patched into objects.package, as are the new party types.
As of Pets these new parties appear in a separate "throw party" menu because EAMaxis has opted to change the phones, and has added an "override" (=mod) to "fix" the H05 stuff.

HelloKit:
Well, I finally fixed it, but it wasn't easy. EA support was no help at all. After going around in circles with them for 3 days because they didn't seem to be capable of actually reading my messages, they finally told me that there is no way to uninstall or reinstall the Holiday Mini-Pack without completely uninstalling the entire game and starting over again. IMNSHO, when you're dealing with a game with multiple expansion packs that all have to be installed again, that's completely unacceptable. What on earth were they thinking, not including a way to reset the Mini-Pack installation in case of installation failure?

So, what I ended up doing is this. I installed the base game, '05 HPP, and '06 Mini-Pack on my fiance's PC, using a program called Total Uninstall to monitor the Mini-Pack installation and log all file changes. Then, I copied all of the changed files back to my own PC. And now, finally, as far as I can tell, all of the new holiday content is showing up in my game.

One unrelated oddity I noticed while doing this, is that even with nothing but the base game (unpatched) installed, the objects.package on my fiance's PC had a more recent modified date (10/25/2005) than the one on mine (1/22/2005). How is this even possible, when the base game was released long before Oct. 2005? I didn't copy the file over, just left it alone for now... I don't even know if the base objects.package matters since I have all the EPs.

dizzy:
10/25/05 was the patched objects.package. It has been shipped patched in the box for quite some time.

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