More Awesome Than You!

I'm having a rather frustrating and confusing issue with my game files.

I was trying to have the game regenerate the default neighborhoods (Pleasantview, etc) and so after copying over the files and custom neighborhoods I wanted, went to delete the Neighborhoods folder. No good, says the "Storytelling" folder is in use and cannot be deleted. Except, nothing else is open. I manage to isolate the screwed-up folder, it's Strangetown's Storytelling folder. I delete everything inside the folder, still cannot delete it. By this point, the only thing inside the Neighborhoods folder is the empty N002 folder with the empty Storytelling folder inside. Not able to delete it, Storytelling is in use. I checked the Storytelling folder's properties, and it's marked as read-only, but even when I uncheck that and hit apply and ok, still unable to delete because it still shows itself as read-only.

Is there something I'm missing? Or should I just nuke the entire game from space and completely reinstall?

Just a thought...Have you tried restarting your computer!??

I had a similar problem and it cleared up after a simple restart!

*facepalm* I feel like an absolute idiot. I don't know why I didn't try that... probably because I just had restarted my computer. Thanks so much.

If that doesn't work, then try it in safe mode.

Also, make all file types visible. It's probably an invisible thumbs.db.