More Awesome Than You!

I just got AL, and everything ran well. Or, I was thinking everything was going well. I made me a little founder, and I was getting REALLY attatched. More in love with a fambly than ever. I find her that rich Armand premade, and they get married. I get her pregnant and renovate the house. I attempt to save. To my eternal dismay, it freezes up. I turned on testing cheats before I loaded the lot to try again. STILL didn't save. I figure it's the lot, so I move them. It finally saves! And lo, there was much rejoicing in the lands. The baby grows into a toddler, and I save on an idyllic father-daughter scene. IT FREEZES AGAIN.

There's either something wrong with the family or saving w/o exiting, because: A) I play the Cordials and nothing ever happens to them because they're Maxian and I don't really give a shit, or B) If I exit the neighborhood or game w/ saving it works. The only odd little thing I noticed was that I have 2 TS2EP8s or whatever in TSBin, but I can't imagine why that is or how it would affect saves. I'm pretty sure I pirated properly.

When I first tried Apartment life a few months ago, I had saving problems too. I was checking out the new features  with one of the premades in Belladonna Cove, but at seemingly random times, the game would freeze up when I clicked save. I redid things step by step and tried to save afterward until I figured out what action caused the freeze. It was clearing the neighborhood gossip with the Lot Debugger. The default neighborhood information is probably borked up, as usual. I wasn't using a cleaned up neighborhood template.

I don't think this is possible, since the clearing of gossip cannot CAUSE a freeze in the save process.

Speaking of clearing gossip, every time I try to clear gossip from all I get a "too many iterations" error. Does this just mean I have too much gossip to clear all at once like that?

Pretty much. Your neighborhood is clearly too emo. If you do it a few more times, it should clear out eventually.