macrotastics causing error on child

[witch]

I have a sim child standing in the middle of the kitchen, every time I mouse over the macrotastics object to tell her to do something, I get an error.

[J. M. Pescado]

I am uncertain why this would happen. Do you have any balloon centerpieces on the lot? If so, try removing this balloon centerpiece, which appears to be corrupt, and replacing it with a different one to see if the problem persists.

[witch]

If you mean the party balloons, there may have been an old one left. If you mean something else by balloon centrepiece, I don't have anything like that.

Also, I recalled afterwards, I deleted a pet visitor when it attacked the rubbish bin, maybe there was some corruption attached to that? I saw the child was trying to empty the trash - or do something with it - in the error log.

I tried deleting the trashcan and exiting the lot. The child has been fine since.

[J. M. Pescado]

That sounds like it would have caused some corrupt data to be written to the wrong object, yes. Your party balloons were apparently corrupted as a result.

[witch]

OK. Sorry to have bothered you, I'd forgotten about deleting the pet visitor as it was much earlier in the day.

[Mirelly]

Just an aside. I tend to cancel out unwanted actions by 'force error' > reset. Is it safe to assume that is a less bug-inducing method of controlling visitor?

[J. M. Pescado]

Just an aside. I tend to cancel out unwanted actions by 'force error' > reset. Is it safe to assume that is a less bug-inducing method of controlling visitor?

Don't do that. Resetting things abruptly can lead to data corruption if done at arbitrary, inappropriate times. It's just not something you should be doing regularly.

[Mirelly]

Ah. I anticipated that. I will cease and desist.

[witch]

Yeah, guess I'll hold off on the random deleting too.  Making visitors selectable and stopping the action should be fine though ay?