I boogered a lot

[cwieberdink]

I'm not sure what happened.  It's a community lot.  I saved with the owner (a playable) on the lot.  Now when I try and load it, it looks like it's loading and it goes throught the loading screen, then I hear the ka-ching of the cash register but the loading screen never goes away and the lot won't load.

Is there anything I can do?  There were probably 4 employees on the lot as well.  It was a level 7 business.  It is the only lot I can not enter, to my knowledge.

C

[jsalemi]

Have you tried going in with testing cheats on, and seeing if any errors are generated?

[cwieberdink]

Have you tried going in with testing cheats on, and seeing if any errors are generated?

Testing cheats is in my startup file.  No errors.

No other thoughts from anyone?

C

[jsalemi]

A couple of folks had a problem with an earlier version of Pescado's restaurant/coffee/bar fix hack: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4949.0.html.  Might this related?

[jrd]

Can you enter the lot in construction mode? The Lot Crowbar may help here.

[cwieberdink]

Okay, an update.  I tried pulling the restaurantbarfix. No go.  So I pulled the entire d/l folder.  I can now enter the lot, but although the owner is supposedly there (according to clicking her house), she is nowhere on the lot, her car is not there and live mode is grayed out.  I will be replacing just the lot debugger and see if I can crowbar the lot. 

Question:  if I crowbar it, do I save?  And if I save without my cc in, when I replace the d/l folder and go back in later, will my bland objects all be replaced with my custom ones?

C

[jrd]

If you crowbar it, it should reset. So you lose everything since the last save for that lot, but it should be playable again.

The crowbar is not the debugger btw, unless that changed recently.

[Jelenedra]

For clarification, in the thread linked to, MagicMoon only has NL and Pescado has declared the fix OFB only as a result of him not being able to fix the issue.

Cwieberdink has OFB, so that couldn't be the cause.

[cwieberdink]

The crowbar link JM put in a post a while back is not valid anymore.  I was able to enter the lot, tell the sim (floating head, wonky face, lol) to go home.  She went home, her lot loaded and I saved and exited.  Everything looks weird without my cc, but at least I got in the lot, and got back out again.

I'm reloading my cc and I'm gonna try getting in again.

I realized that right before I saved and exited I had made one of the employees a manager.  i don't know if that had anything at all to do with it or not.  I'm still not sure what happened.

C

[jrd]

Here's the crowbar.
Be VERY CAREFUL with it.

//Edit: added the collection, so you can actually USE IT

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[Rose Outlaw]

Do I get this right?
The crowbar has to be placed *on* the corrupted lot?

Pity, I was already hoping it could fix my little problem with the Summerdream lot that crashes the game...