Data-Clearing Borkination

[Ichigo]

I frequent this section of MATY too much, no?

So I freshly pirated Free Time, and the pretty thing ran well for my first few play sessions. I go and say "Hmm, I need me some shiny new eyeballs!" and I download a set of default replacements that worked well for everybody. I fire up TS2, and the very first thing I notice is the "For Sale" icon and the icon displaying what season the lot is in is missing from every house. I double click an empty house and a blank message box with a blank box flashes up. Goody fucking gumdrops.

So I'm thinking "Ok, maybe the interface threw up" and I go to my newly made legacy. The first thing I notice is the need bars have no title. I go to relationships, they all display the name and value of them, but the little spill saying "I don't know this sim, I just met them" is gone. So I go to interests. Again, no title, no roll-over. Testing cheats was fruitless.

I switch to Pleasantview to see if maybe just Desidereta Valley is broken. Nope, the relationship roll over spills are back along with the need titles, but that's it. I also noticed that every Want/Fear is in the format "<unidentified string> be best Friends with $sim$" This game hates me.


How can I recover my game without regenerating the folder?

[snabul]

I had the titles of songs missing, except for custom music. Instead of titles the IDs are shown. Maybe this is related...

[Ichigo]

I fear mine has more dire implications.....

[Tarlia]

Did you try the good old quit game, reboot, restart game? And try a fresh neighbourhood?

There's no way some default replacement eyes caused this. No CC could cause this.

[snabul]

In my case, reboot did help.

[Ichigo]

Clearing the caches solved it! BAAAAAAA.