More Awesome Than You!

I have arrquired my copies of Sims 3 and WA, both Region 2, and updated them manually all the way to the latest patches of 1.12.70.006002 and 2.7.7.006002.  Everything was fine, and AwesomeMod worked great.  Now enter, HELL -- as in, High End Loft.  The booty version I arrquired on my latest sea voyage turned out to be Region 1 which installed just fine.  Updating, on the other hand, is not fine.  I have version 3.0.38.004001 and I am trying to update manually to 3.1.7.004001 and I get the following:

"Update Error: File Not Found"

Would've been nice if it told me what file was missing, but I wouldn't expect as much from EA.  I've tried using "PatchLogViewer" to see if it would give me some kind of idea, but it says all is well.  I've searched up and down and across Google, but didn't find anything helpful.  I've searched here and I found one possible solution to copying the "bin" folder from the HELS image over to the hard drive, but that didn't work out.

Has anyone found away around this?  I'm not overly concerned, because I can just reinstall everything and try HELS again at an earlier patch version or just not bother with it at all.  It would be nice if I could find a way to avoid all that, though.

It is pretty much absolutely inexcusable to make a new topic about "file not found".

Doubtful that AM worked with those patches as they are not the fucking latest patches.


Highly fucking doubtful, otherwise you would have found the answer to your question.  Try again.

Don't make new fucking posts for such old, often discussed to death problems.

In other words, you're using the crack and it never occured to you this would cause a problem in the future?

I have not used the crack.  Unless there are updates not included on Simprograms, then versions 1.12.70 and 2.2.8 are the latest ones - as far as I can see.  I update manually and not through the launcher.  I realize that AwesomeMod is up to 1.14, 2.9 now, however, it still worked for me.

As far as searching, this is what I find here:

Missing S3Launcher.exe file from HELS/game/bin folder.. RESOLVED
Ambitions: What's borked
TOOL: TS3 Recompressor
Those looking for the 1.12/2.7/3.3 Patches
Patch DAY!!
Can't install patch Fuckity FUCK FUCK FUCK
Update Error - Invalid file found
The Launcher lies
I can't update to ver 1.8 - "Invalid file found"

And a whole slew of stuff about "invalid file found" which is not the error I'm getting.

You're still WRONG. It is now 1.15 and 2.10.  The patches are available, go looking for them.  AM is now 1.15 and 2.10, with many people reporting core mismatch errors if the haven't applied those patches.  There are also other patching tools available without using the launcher that secure the latest patches, go looking for them.

AM must be very recent, then.  What I have I downloaded last week.  You did answer one of my other "unasked" questions, though.  ;)  As I said previously, I don't care too much if HELS works or not.  I won't lose any sleep over it.  I thought it would be nice to check it out a little, but it isn't all that important.  So, if you wish to help me or point me in the right direction, great.  If you wish to flame me, awesome.  I expected no less.

Wizard_merlin gave you the key words to look up (bolded by me). Oh hai, I found what he was writing about with this search (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?action=search2).

Oh my god, you are special aren't you? AM is sometimes updated several times a day, depending on what Pescado is doing. You should at least be updating every 2 - 3 days. Also, patching methods have been reported to DEATH. If I can patch manually, so can youse.
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Too funny.   ;D