I have a similar problem, and didn't see the need to start my own thread about it. Most of my custom sims show up in CAS, except for two of about a dozen that I downloaded and manually installed. All the other downloaded sims show up, just not these two, and for no apparent reason. Any suggestions?
Different age group maybe? Happened to me once, that I couldn't find a sim I'd just saved, because the filter was set to YA (per default, I think), whereas the sim I was looking for was an adult. I re-created him two times before I realized that there was an age filter
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