If you didn't make a backup of your Sims3 folder before uninstalling and you are missing all of your store items, then you would have to get all the .Sims3Pack files and reinstall those.  If you downloaded them from here then you need to follow the process for decrapifying them, etc.  If you actually bought them from the Store then you can go online and re-download and install from the store.

If you are talking about the downloads folder for store items that will not show up by just placing the items from the old downloads folder to the new one.  You would actually have to have the dcCache folder from your old install.  Then all of your old store items will show up.  If you are strictly talking about the Mods folder those should not have to be "installed".

I gave you $40 today, hope that helps.  I've used this site for a long time so it's the least I can do.

Maybe it is because she is pregnant and it won't let her travel and then it gets confused.  Falconpunch the baby and then try letting them go home.

Riverview loads fine for me.  No problems at all.

First I went to the directory where the Sims is installed and changed my resource.cfg to be like this:

Priority 501
PackedFile Mods/Override/*.package
Priority 500
DirectoryFiles  Mods/Packages/... autoupdate
PackedFile Mods/Packages/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Hair/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Skins/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Decor/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Accessories/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Clothing/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Build/*.package
PackedFile Mods/Patterns/*.package
PackedFile Mods/DCC/*.dbc

Then under the Mods folder I created a folder called DCC.

Into that folder I copied all the .dbc files from the DCCache folder.

Everything loads and all content is there.

EDIT:  Must have hit enter at the same time as you, sorry for the duplicate entry.

I went back into the game and some of my downloaded objects are there but some are missing.  When I copied the dbc file over was I supposed to delete it from its original location?

EDIT:  I am definitely missing my content.

NEW EDIT:  Got it!!!  Copied all the dbc files from the cache and now all my content shows up and the game runs smoothly.  Thanks everyone!

I bought both the base game and WA.  I used the launcher to install the patches and I downloaded the new version of AM.  Everything loaded up and ran fine except some items are missing.  I am going to try the dbcache thing and then I will let you know if everything shows up. 

I had no crashes at all.  It went smooth.

What is the link for AM Test, I have forgotten it.

Just right click the link and choose save target as and it will download.

I have one Sim in one household that has had a total of 2 wishes and shes almost at the end of her teen years.  Everyone else in the family gets tons of them.

Can't wait to go home from work so I can give this a try.  I've been waiting for this, at least until Pescado builds his own Story Progression Mod!

I'll keep my eye on them and if it does have them adopt I'll report back.  I noticed it when it first said Cyclone Sword (sp?) was dating some guy last name Boyd I think, then it said they married, then they moved into a house together.  So I'll watch them off and on without selecting them, and see if it progresses.  Cyclone is an elder and Boyd is a YA.

I used Indie last night for the first time and I was surprised when it married two guys and moved into their own house.  That was great!

I agree about the elders.  My town has all elders.  If I take my YA anywhere there is no one to talk to but elders.  They do die a lot.  I took him to the public pool yesterday and, of course, elders everywhere.  I watched as the Grim Reaper came twice to take two of them while swimming.  

Took him to the restaurant and the Grim Reaper showed up there to take another.

Doesn't the game generate new families?  Where do they go if it does?  Every night everybody in the entire neighborhood moves out.  I run storyprogression move in but the next night they all move again.  I'm getting so sick of elders.  I think I will kill them all off and make all new families.

Have you noticed the following:

Two Sims want to have a conversation so they walk all around the house to find a place to face each other?
You tell a Sim to call someone and they walk through 3 rooms to find a place to use their cellphone or better yet always go in the bathroom to use the cellphone?

And don't even get me started on more than one Sim using a flight of stairs.

But all in all in my game they do work it out everytime without getting stuck, just the useless running all over the place to get in position.

Oh my god, I just sat here and almost peed myself laughing, as this post just struck me so hilarious!

I'm still using the mod from 7/1/2009 and I don't have the move out problem at all.  I deliberately did not update when I saw some of the problems happening.  Since it does not occur on this version doesn't that imply that something must have been changed since this one that caused this to happen?

My Sim was at a restaurant and had befriended an elder there Nancy Landgraab and while they were talking the Grim Reaper came and she died.  He was mourning so I took him to the graveyard and chose Manage the Dead, and in there was her tombstone, so I took it out and put it in his inventory.  He already had the opportunity from the Science Lab.

So I took him to the Science Lab and had her brought back and she returned as a ghost and she was walking around at the Science lab.  I thought she was going to be human again.  So I left her there and returned home and thats when I noticed it had added her as a family member.  Ugh!  So then she started hanging at my house and causing problems.  So finally I found she had her own tombstone in her inventory so I clicked on it and it had the option to return to the Netherworld.  So I chose that and she vanished from my family list and I thought I was done with her.

Now she appears everynight haunting the house!  How do I get rid of her?

Are you saying that since I have some gay Sims in my game now the entire neighborhood is bisexual?  Or are you saying once the entire gay population grows to 10% then everyone becomes bisexual?

What DBPF File editor are people using?

No, it hadn't announced it but what you say makes very good sense.  I've since moved way on beyond that point but if it is the day of their birthday i think eating the life fruit first then eating the ambrosia would have worked.  It was obviously the day of his birthday but the system had not announced it.  I've noticed that the game usually announces that their birthday is approaching but it doesn't tell you on the day, unless I am just missing it or I forgot it.

Edit:  Grammar Error

I'm not quite that stupid that I wouldn't have tried that.  When dragging and dropping to the pond I just get a circle with a slash and they go back to the inventory.

How do you stock the pond?  I have a pond at my house but it won't let me add any fish to it.

The only thing my level 10 Scientist can do when she "Experiments On" something is make it give a good mood to people who walk by.  I have tried it on the fridge and the stupid Gnome that moves around.