I know what you mean .... I'm finding it hard finding things to pass the time until it comes out! Is there an exact release date in the U.K. yet or are we stuck on "Spring 2006" still?

Awww Guys you are all the best!!! 

Not quite sure what's happened - but it's righted itself. I've said it before but i'll say it again, it's so nice to know that there is still a place where there are decent people who'll help out someone in a spot of bother.

Thank you, thank you, thank you

Em
xxx

My download folder is in the bit of "My documents" that has all the neighbourhoods and stuff - it all worked brilliantly until the pc decided to give up on us yesterday. I reinstalled The Sims2 and then the expansion packs. All ok there. Tried to put the downloads folder back into it's original place and it went in no problem but nothing showed up and I noticed the icons had changed - was up until the early hours trying to find the program to open a PACKAGE file but no joy so went to bed with the hump - uninstalled the sims again this morning then reinstalled and it was exactly the same.

Yea, i quickly saved the whole download folder before Stuart reinstalled Windows and everything else and there are a couple of hundred of them. Do you think it would be easier just to track down the original downloads and reinstall the game and start over?

Thank you so much for all your help - you've no idea how much I appreciate it 

oooo that was a bit bigger than i thought it would be ... oops 

thank you so much! i'm so dense 

ok, this is what i see in my downloads folder - this is all the pretty little icons in there (grits teeth)

thanks - you lot are the best!

ok this is going to make me sound totally dense but could you tell me how you put that in your post? I've just sat here for the last ten minutes trying to make my screen shot an acceptable upload so you can see it and now i'm even closer to losing all my hair!!

Everything's in one folder which until the pc went wrong last night worked with no problems at all. Have done what you suggested and checked the log folder and there's nothing there about custom content.  There are a few txt documents in there but most of them are 0kb. Checked with hubby and he said that WinRAR is installed and he can't figure out why it won't work all of a sudden

I restarted the game a couple of times and no change and then thought reboot the whole thing just in case.  Last night when it all went wrong it wouldn't let me install the E.P.'s because there was some fragment of the game still running that wasn't showing up in the taskbar and I had to reboot to shut everything down to add an E.P.
Ok, just checked and no custom hair, clothes, eyes, body meshes or makeup are showing and there are loads in there

Thank you for helping, i really appreciate it  

You're all so kind to take the trouble to reply - thanks 

I've tried everything but nothing's done the trick .... I made sure that the custom content was enabled, rebooted so many times that the pc is wondering whether it's coming or going and deleted and made new download folders ... it's all in there but nothing is showing up on the game. Am now seriously considering (a) buying a wig and (b) just chucking the lot in the recycle bin and reinstalling the game and E.P.'s and then re-downloading everything.

Is it too early at 3.15pm to consider a drink???

Thank you all for taking the trouble to read and reply - it's nice to know there are still some good people walking around xx

Hi Everyone
I'm new to here so I'm sorry if I've posted in the wrong place.  I've been merrily downloading stuff for a couple of months and yesterday my husband's pc lost it and he needed reinstall windows. I managed to save my downloads but I had to reinstall everything (sims 2 and all E.P.'s). The icons were used to be a sort of booklet thingy in the downloads folder, and now they're a windows icon and nothing is showing up in the game. Please help!!!

Thanks

Em