I have. Thanks for the input.

edit: and reading the previous post it came to mind that all vehicles in the neighborhood show up as "no driver". And I have tested without other custom content with the recent version of am. I mean this isn't going to make me stop using it, but being able to make my families sacred would be, well, awesome.

No, I've been trying the old framework and I've been trying the new and even a combo of both, each time I get the showconfig just fine but make sacred or track radar do not work.

Sept. 30th. If you need the actual time it's tricky because for some reason all my files show time 19:08 as time modified. Like all. If I update any file in the am it still shows time modified as 'today 19:08'. I haven't had time to investigate this further yet (I've got 5-month old triplets and a 2-year old). And in case you didn't really need all this extra info, sorry.

Well, the making sacred isn't working for me. Without any other mods in that new Supernatural world Lunar-whatever-it's-called, I can't make even the family I'm playing sacred let alone any others because I can't even see any other lived in house tags in map view. I can click the make sacred but it won't actually do anything, no halo even.  I can switch houses, though, by selecting the + close up on a house and if it happens to be lived in I can click on a house and change to it, but only if I've been to the house first the old fashioned way. Otherwise I cannot select it. Don't know if you can help me as I can see this isn't a widely spread thing. Just thought I'd let you know anyways.

Edit: I'm patched and all that.

Or, better yet; use real candles instead of electrical (like I did this year). Pretty!

Thanks Jolrei.
Yeah, no, I didn't do a search on this forum, didn't think to because I've done searches on many others and came up with nothing.

It's not the phone hack.  At first I didn't think it was the lot sync either but after adding some more of my downloads back into game my game unexpectedly quit while I tried to load my custom neighborhood.  I'll check back and try to narrow down possible conflicting downloads...

But so far only the toilet hack seems to leave me with empty lots bin. 

I have all EPs but Seasons, haven't gotten it yet because it hasn't been out long for Mac and for some reason my order has been delayed. 
I haven't downloaded any new lots in a while and since they all worked before I'm inclined to think it's to do with something else...

Problem's this: Lots disappear from bin and previously also from two neighborhoods (of which one, Pleasanview, was played and the other, Strangetown, was not).    This all happened after I installed the phone hack, the wash hands after using toilet -thing and also lot syncer.  At the same time I entered one house in customhood, installed the lot sync device and my sim like all others in the hood instantly became jobless, friendless, their aspiration meters hit rock bottom and they lost their personality points.  This happened to all, including pets.  I thereafter uninstalled the lot sync thingy and was forced to reinstall the game as nothing else would fix disappeared lots, not even recovering an older backup.

I since have noticed that the lots again disappeared from bin when I installed the toilet hand wash hack only.  I did not think to check the effect on Pleasanview or Strangetown.  I'm going in game again but this is a slow process because after every time I try something and when something goes screwy I can't just swap the Sims2 folder to an older one since it doesn't seem to fix problems caused, only if I remove The Sims2 folder, let the game create a new one and then by hand add my customhoods in does the game work.  But I can't add Pleasantview, like I mentioned, it doesn't work, lots show up if I only put in the lots folder but adding characters doesn't seem to bring them back I only have the default characters.  So the house where Oldies lived and where mr. Oldie died is in the neighborhood but mrs. Oldie is in the bin with her husband ... 

What else...  I've been dealing with this for quite a few days now and it's put me off my game... I have not other hacks in game.  Downloads, yes - objects, clothing, hair, not too many houses and no downloaded sims.  I can't use Cleaninstaller when installing stuff because I'm on a Mac.  I should have no conflicting software, even if I've only had this notebook for 6 months.  I did install Norton Antivirus 10.0 for Mac the same day I first tried out the hacks...   

But I can't think of what went wrong and ruined three months of game play by emptying all Pleasantview... It was like there never was lots in the first place, totally empty...  So I guess I'm looking for help in understanding if I did something wrong.  And how to prevent me from doing it again.  I would have liked the hacks I mentioned, I'm always tied to my notebook to check what family to play next...  and the phone irritates me more than my husband does three days a month.  But I'm a bit worried about putting them in game...

well, hopefully someone can shed some light on this form me 

Sorry I'm being so unclear.  Of course the hacks were sort of installed in them but what I meant was just that I never entered those two neighborhood while the hack was in game I only entered them once I had uninstalled the hack from my customhood and then removed from downloads.  Strangetown seemed ok at first people were okay and houses there but Pleasantview wouldn't actually load up at all, it crashed my game.  When I reentered the game Pleasantview loaded but then was without houses and without lots and I then entered Strangetown and that was empty too.  But My custom Sim Islands is fine.  Except for the sims.

Another thought crossed my mind though.  I installed Norton Antivirus yesterday as well.  Before hacks, before entering the neighborhoods.  Yes, I've read it's not the best or most appraised, but it was the only thing they could give me at the Mac store.  And yes, I probably don't even need it but now I have it.

I did notice I couldn't swap the package files, but I got my two customhoods working.  the problem was that even if I put in the character folder my characters weren't there, just the originals that come with fresh install.  But lots did show up when I put the old lots folder in the fresh install.  Anyway, my Mac game is only three months old, before that I played on my PC.  So no backups available because I never did any backups since I haven't installed new EPs since I got the Mac game.

Thaks for your help Jsalemi.  I'd move this somewhere else if I knew where to go...

Thanks!  I've actually been at it for about six hours now.  As I closed and reopened the game more times enough I got the lots to appear again in the lot catalog.  They are all in correct folders in correct places, the files never left.  Now the custom neighborhood I was talking about is other wise correct but the families are still friendless, without jobs and in aspiration failure, all of them, including their pets. 

Weirdest things are if I remove a lot in that neighborhood to put in the bin it never appears in the bin.  Also it was Pleasantview and Strangetown that appeared empty.  I never really played Strangetown but in Pleasantview I lost 3 months of game play (I KNOW).

I removed my Sims2 folder and started afresh.  Pleasantview appeared fine, when I put lots in, they showed up correctly.  When I put characters in, nothing changed, just default characters in fresh install situations and when I swapped the neighborhood.package file to the older one all lots were gone again and the neighborhood seemed empty. 

It's just so sad, I went in game again with my own Pleasantview lots, since the characters don't show up it's like they just left, In one house there are still birthday balloons outside and half full pet dish in the kitchen... the kid's bedcovers are crumbled like he just got up...  I can almost see their ghosts, it's all ver tragic... 

But I never installed the hack in Pleasantview (or Strangetown) only in my custom hood, so yes I guess it wasn't the hack, but I can't think of anything else since I hadn't put in anything else long before those and the families in my custom hood were messed up instantly after getting this hack.  So I'm lost... still...

So I wish I knew what went wrong exactly seven hours ago (that's when my neighborhood.package files were last modified) I can't make use of most helpful programs like Clean installer and such because I'm on a Mac...  But I'm willing to try most anything 

Problem. 
Yes I'm a noob, but I'm not new to downloading, even mods, it's just I've stayed away from hacks for obvious reasons.  I even thought about installing this one for over a week and then I finally got the courage and ended up being so excited that I forgot to back up my game (BIG mistake). 

So when I first installed this it erased all info in my families.    All their personality points were gone, their careers and their relationships were empty and their aspirations are in lowest red.  All this before entering one house.  I naturally went into a house uninstalled the thing from neighborhood, got rid of the object and now my house catalog in neighborhood window is gone.  All the houses, even Maxis, let alone the ones I made or had downloaded.    and of course the families are still without their previous lives.  So now what?  I just screwed up my game for good?

I have no other hacks from anywhere else but at the same time as installing this one I also put in game the telephone hack and the flush toilet hack, both from MATY.  I gather those didn't cause such effects.
Any help appreciated, hopefully someone still comes this way.

Clarina