Preparing for post-NL expansion packs
Yimmit:
Did you say reinstall before? (I guess I shut that out). I'll try.
Mum has a very shiny iMac G5 that I bought her for Xmas a coupla years ago. Charter cable is the reason I can't internet from her machine (AOL sucks bigtime, but I at least used to be able to hook up my machine to internet on her account). And I have a MacBook Pro, fully capable of handling all versions of the sims up to and including seasons. [Oh now that I read more carefully, you are assuming a laptop would keep mom in bed...., um, no, a crossword puzzle book, maybe, but a laptop, no...she doesn't quite understand the power of the internet. I forgive her because she's over 70. It's amazing she's figured out e-mail. Dad's worse at 93. Mom prints out all the e-mails and web pages she wants dad to read!]
If lowbart's on mac and pets bypasses any of these problems, I'd love to know. I didn't want to go to pets, but if I have to....
ZephyrZodiac:
You don't need to uninstall/reinstall everything, just OFB. Take everything you want to keep out of the game folders - downloads, neighbourhoods etc., as the uninstall will delete everything in MyDocuments/EAGames (or whatever the equivalent location is on a Mac), uninstall OFB, then defragment and generally clean up your hard drive and then reinstall OFB. After that, you can delete the game folders you don't want and copy back your saves stuff, then load your game and see what happens.
I'll bet there are crossword puzzles out there on the net somewhere.....
Yimmit:
Tried the reinstall (everything was already out of the main folder for this process, I was waiting for one week of bug-free play before restoring my old hoods.) No luck. It is that end of sophomore/beginning of junior year dialog that is crashing my game to desktop. All I have in my downloads folder are the aforementioned hacks. Even without those it crashed to desktop. That doesn't let you make error logs, right?
Plus, I know I'm frustrated, but I do want to say a big thank you ZZ.
ZephyrZodiac:
You could use Two Jeffs College Adjuster and just move them up into Junior Year and see if that solves the crash problem. And let Aspyria know so if they bring out a patch, there's a chance they'll address the issue as you may well not be alone in having this problem.
Yimmit:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 04, 02:18:29
And let Aspyria know so if they bring out a patch, there's a chance they'll address the issue as you may well not be alone in having this problem.
Well, since they have released Pets and Seasons and now all these stuff packs, I seriously doubt they would be sympathetic to my OFB problem. I contacted them about an old base game issue. At the time I wasn't reading any fora such as this lovely place. They were insisting it was MY problem. From perusing lovely forums such as this one, I deduced that my problem was not mine, but the games'. But I guess I will let them know, for the sake of posterity. I figured I'd have more luck going into my local Apple store and shoving the box back in their face ;D
(and I'll try the college adjuster if my patience lasts that long. So far I have seen no reason to keep OFB at ALL. Better to go back to NL. And, lookie there, I just found my NL cd. I don't even have to wait until I get home!)
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