It's inconsiderate and rude to beg (or even ask) for a mod creator to update their mods. They already know when they need to, you're basically insulting their intelligence. They get to it when they get to it, not a second sooner. The fact that you even told him he needs to update shows quite the opposite of patience.

I know what you mean, but I did click the "Remove" not the "Disable"

Thanks for the suggestions, but nothing helped...


I tried that, but I'm still getting the error message.


Tried it, but the lot isn't in the bin.


I've already made the lot on a clean install....

"So, I figured ok, I'll start over again, I MANUALLY uninstalled the Sims, and reinstalled it. I created the Charmed manor YET AGAIN, no custom content objects, at all (I actually had the display custom content turned off while I was building it). I packaged the lot, deleted the lot from the game, and installed the packaged lot, I looked through buy mode, the objects were there again."

twice with absolutely no downloads in the folder.

I'm going to be pasting this on every message board that I can to get as many answers as I can, so if you see it somewhere else, that's why. I've been trying to figure this problem out for 5 days now.

Now onto my problem, a while back I downloaded items from modthesims2 and a few other places for my Charmed manor. I got done building it, packaged it to a file and deleted it from the neighborhood. I deleted my downloads folder because I didn't use all of the objects. I installed the packaged lot, went into it to check it, and all of the custom objects that were there reverted back to the objects that they were made with, so basically all of them were gone. I noticed that the pictures had overwritten the originals!!! Example: One of the pictures that was duplicated off of the Bella Squared picture, replaced the Bella Squared. I knew the only way to fix this would be to reinstall it because I sure didn't want the originals to be overwritten.

I deleted all of the custom content in the Charmed manor and packaged it back up again. I deleted the downloads folder, then installed the packaged lot, I then realized that a few of the items that had been removed were in the Objects catalog again, I deleted them. I figured, maybe it was because of the packaged lot, so I deleted the lot in the game and installed the package again. Sure enough the objects reappeared. I went through the entire lot, there were no custom objects to be found.

I deleted the lot out of the game, deleted the downloads folder,and this time, I also deleted the packaged lot. I rebuilt the Charmed manor OVER again, packaged the lot to a file, and I get the lovely "This application has crashed and will now terminate" error message.

So, I figured ok, I'll start over again, I MANUALLY uninstalled the Sims, and reinstalled it. I created the Charmed manor YET AGAIN, no custom content objects, at all (I actually had the display custom content turned off while I was building it). I packaged the lot, deleted the lot from the game, and installed the packaged lot, I looked through buy mode, the objects were there again.

At this point I thought maybe it was my computer, so I ran virus scans, adware scans, defrag, system restore, nothing worked. So I just decided to forget it and did a System Recovery (for those who might not know, this process deletes EVERYTHING that you've done and restores your PC to exactly how it was when you purchased it), reinstalled some of my programs, then I installed the Sims 2 back in.

So, I rebuilt the house, packaged it, yada yada yada, THIS time I installed the packaged lot with the Sims2Pack Clean Installer, those objects were in the package (they weren't highlighted in red or anything) even after all of the reinstalling and the System Recovery. I unchecked them, proceeded with the install, went into the game and figured ok this time I know they're not installed with it, so I attempted to package the lot up, but I received the error message again. I opened the Clean Installer and those items that I unchecked previously, were there, but they were highlighted in pink because it said that they were empty packages, I deleted them, went back into my game and reattempted the packaging, but instead got the error message again. The lot will package as long as I leave the custom content alone, but I don't want it there! I don't understand how they keep resurfacing.

I'm open for suggestions and/or Solutions.

To recap, this is what I've done, so please don't tell me to do it again:
-Reinstalled
-Reinstalled Manually
-System Restore
-System Recovery
-Defragged
-Virus scan with Norton
-Adware Scan with Lavasoft
-Used Sims2 Clean Installer
-Used Custom Content Manager from the Sims 2 site

There may be a few other things I've done, but please read this thread thoroughly and understand it before answering to make sure I haven't already tried it. If it's confusing, I'm sorry, I know I confused myself while making it, if you need more info, just ask. Thanks in advance~!

*Edited for spelling*

I chose unfurnished, because I like to decorate them myself. A few custom created contents is fine for me, just as long as it isn't overdone. I don't like a lot too large to where there is a lot of "empty spots" in the yard...other than that, that's it. That's my input. 

Well here is a list of mine:

-The Lot View Options (under Game Options) resets once you exit the game and re-enter a lot.

-While playing poker on a community lot, if you try to cancel while playing, your Sim freezes. Resulting in exiting to the neighborhood screen without saving.

-Visitor leaves right after your Sim greets them, if your Sim invites someone over, the invited Sim will show, but leave right after you greet them with a "Look at the time, I better get going now" or "See ya." message even though it's daytime. This also goes for when a Sim is walking down the street, as soon as you greet them, they leave. Making it impossible to have any type of parties. Also, making it impossible to move in Townies. This includes all lots including the University ones.
**If anyone else gets this one and is willing to use a hack to fix it, this one seemed to work for me: http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=86655, it's the Visitors Stays Longer Hack.**

-Sound bug, the sound of the TV, Band Instruments(Including Bass, Guitar, Piano, and drums), Karaoke machine goes out off and on. There is nothing to do about the sound, it comes on off and on, while it's off, I adjust the sound options every which way I can and still end up with nothing.

-Car not there when I re-enter a lot, I was playing the Goths yesterday, before I left the lot Cassandra and Alexander (If you're wondering, I used the agesimscheat on to change Cassandra to a teen, and Morty to an adult) carpooled to school and was already got when I exited. When I re-entered, Alexander and Cassandra were at the lot, but the car was gone, and I can't place another car where it was previously parked.

This one may be because of the visitor hack or because of me aging Cassandra down to a teen, but I'm putting it here just in case.

I just copied and pasted this from the thread I made last night.