Groups.cache corruption

[miros]

My groups.cache file seems to get corrupted about every other day. 

Is it safe to make it read only to attempt to protect it?  If not, can I make a backup copy and copy that over when it gets corrupted?  It doesn't do any harm to delete it, but gah, the wait while the first lot loads...

[jsalemi]

Nope, can't make it read-only, as the game updates it at various times.  And though I haven't experienced it yet, I have seen reports of it getting corrupted more often with Pets.  You could save an older version and copy it over, but it'll still get updated anyway when the game finds new CC, so it's probably best to just delete it and let it regenerate.

[Venusy]

Try this: copy the code below into Notepad, replace "(username)" with the username you use to log on, and replace Pets and Sims2EP4 with your most recent EP/SP and .exe file. (Note that this assumes you are on Windows 2000, XP or Vista, with a default game installation)

Code:

DEL "C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\My Documents\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\groups.cache"
START "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Pets\TSBin\Sims2EP4.exe" (if you have any shortcut options, insert them here, if not, delete this part of the code)

Save it as "The Sims 2.bat" (or something like that, the file must end in .bat though), and make sure that "All Files" is selected under "Save as type".