This happened to me once with OFB.  It turned out that my .exe file had been deleted.  Make sure that you still have Sims2EP4.exe installed in the following folder:

Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Pets/TSBin

If it's missing, you can just copy it off the installation disc.

Wow, that is waaaay too advanced for my skill level.  But thanks for the instructions anyway.   

*backs away slowly before she breaks anything

It's a shame, really, because those hair files are over 5 MB each.  Oh well.

Hi Amber!  Tonight I started using your advice to shrink some of my hair files-- I figure if they're small, then I can still afford to keep all 8 kazillion of them.   

So this one group of Peggy hairs turned out to be especially huge, and when I opened up the first of the files in SimPE, I saw that Peggy included not one, not two, but TEN copies of the same texture image in this one file.  They are all the exact same image, but they have different sizes, as you can see in the screenshot below.  So, my question is, how many of these images do I really need to keep?  Would one suffice?  And which one should I choose?  (Okay, that was 3 questions.)

The child version of the hair is the only one that had this problem.  I corrected it in SimPE and uploaded the fixed file here.  This version should work with all clothing categories.  Please let me know if it works correctly for you now!

Has anyone else tried the "Slick Curled Hair for Boys" in the game?  It worked fine for me in Body Shop, but when I tried it in game tonight it reverted to a base game hair.  I have all EPs and all stuff packs except K&B and M&G.



ETA: Okay, I figured out what the issue was.  This hair is only available for the Everyday, Athletic, and Outerwear categories.  Why Maxis chose only those three categories is a mystery to me.  I'll fiddle around with it in SimPE and see if I can fix it.

Actually, you can interact with the repo men, with some workarounds-- one of my sims had the good-looking Repo Man's babies!  I was pretty clueless at the time and didn't know that this was a VBT, but at least I didn't let her marry him.  I could tell even then that he was buggy.

Oh, you are right.  That feature did come with FT.  My bad.

You don't have to have a birthday party to age up townies.  A window will pop up as your sim is age-transitioning, asking who is growing up along with your sim.  All the townies who are in the same age group as your sim, and who your sim has actually met, should be listed in the pop-up.  (Though I have also seen YAs in the list when adults age-transition, but I figured they were close enough in age to qualify as the same age group.  Meh.)

BV also made it possible to age up your townies when one of your playables has a birthday.  As far as I know, this feature was not carried forward to later EPs.

LOL, that was awesome.

I also highly recommend the Lion King video for the same song.  I was completely amazed by how accurately the lyrics sync up with the lions' talking animations.  It's like the song and movie were meant to be spliced together!

Are you sure that it's completely whole?  Make sure you have a file called Sims2EP1.exe in your Program Files/EA GAMES/The Sims 2 University/TSBin folder.  Sometimes an EP's executable file will mysteriously disappear, which results in an error message saying that the EP is not installed.

If the executable is missing, you should be able to copy and paste it off of your disc.  No uninstalling/reinstalling required!

Hi Maria,

I had something really similar happen to me last year.  Everything in my Downloads folder that started with the letters S through Z disappeared.  When I tried to replace them, the new files disappeared, too!  It's such a weird problem and I totally understand your frustration.  Anyway, this is what I did to work around it.

When I made all of the hidden files visible (using advice similar to Simsample's), it turned out there were some weird corrupted quasi-files hiding in my folder.  I deleted those using a tool called Unlocker (you can download it for free).  Then I created a new Downloads folder and cut and pasted all of my good files into the new folder.  I deleted the old Downloads folder with Unlocker, too.  Afterwards, I had to redownload everything with a filename starting with S or higher, but almost everything else was okay!

Hope this helps, and good luck!

Crow, I suggest that you read this very helpful tutorial.  This section in particular should have the info you're looking for.

You can read more about the *.1.package files in this thread and this thread.  The Bigfoot issue was discussed in this thread.

But most of the relevant information from those threads has already been provided by the helpful people who already replied here.   

SaraMK posted all of the GLS clothing and hairs in this post.  Unfortunately, her 4shared link doesn't appear to be working.  Maybe you could PM her?

Actually, I do get it.  You were taking another jab at Brynne.  I just chose to ignore that part of your post because I'm really not interested in Old Fight.

Wait, we can nominate videos??  If that's the case, allow me to direct your attention to this Sims 2 adaptation of one of the classiest songs ever written.

I love how the male character clips through the wall while he's doing his rap.  But my favorite part is the clever use of the "pick up the newspaper" animation. 

Last night and tonight, I tried to send one of my sims to the tinkering hobby lot (Will's Garage) for the first time since Free Time came out.  Both times, my game crashed on the loading screen for Will's Garage.

I only have a few Awesome hacks, plus twojeffs' FT aspiration fix.

Help?

Error log attached:

Havelock posted the painting along with several other items from Pet Stories in this thread.

Already done.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=cfd88f325710d78bcdd3f0f67236cd19&topic=11717.msg330120#new

This was mentioned in the Free Time Bork List thread here.  I don't know if a fix for it has been found yet.

My teen sim that couldn't use the thinking cap (reported here) is a knowledge sim with the secondary aspiration of pleasure.  He is not actually permaplat; but every time he gets into the gold or platinum mood the aspiration rewards still backfire on him.

This happened to me, too-- twice on the same teen sim.  The first time he was in gold aspiration; the second time he was platinum.  I'm afraid to let any of my other sims use a Thinking Cap now!  Does anyone know if Noodlesoothers are safe?

Also, has anyone else had trouble with the Fingerprint Scanner career reward?  I directed one of my sims to use it, and he just stood there holding it (not gaining any skill) until I forced an error and reset him.

I just used the genie to resurrect the old lady, too, and she came back as a zombie!  WTF?

Did I do something wrong, or is this one of those random backfires?

Oh, and she does recognize her husband, son, and granddaughter as family in my game.

Do these sims happen to be low in nice points?  Mean sims will do this behavior whether they're furious or not.

Eevilcat, there was a pretty lengthy discussion about the *.1.package character files in Oops You Broke It a while back.  Link: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5216.0.html

Hope this helps.