What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems

[LeaveMeAlone]

Amazing how a once pretty simple process has become the frustrating shit that it has.  After numerous attempts, neither patch will install, I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...."  I removed my downloads folder, tried to patch again, nothing.  Of course during the course of this, I decide to be a complete and utter jackass and order Celebration stuff.  Hey, what do you know..."this patch is for the Sims2 Pets, but you have a more recent expansion pack installed. To make sure you have the latest updates, you may need to download the update for your latest expansion pack."  Well, that's wonderful, however, I can't very well do that, now can I? 

Ideas?  Insights?  Suggestions?  Figured it was worth a shot here, than elsewhere.

[Venusy]

Amazing how a once pretty simple process has become the frustrating shit that it has.  After numerous attempts, neither patch will install, I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...."  I removed my downloads folder, tried to patch again, nothing.  Of course during the course of this, I decide to be a complete and utter jackass and order Celebration stuff.  Hey, what do you know..."this patch is for the Sims2 Pets, but you have a more recent expansion pack installed. To make sure you have the latest updates, you may need to download the update for your latest expansion pack."  Well, that's wonderful, however, I can't very well do that, now can I? 

Ideas?  Insights?  Suggestions?  Figured it was worth a shot here, than elsewhere.

There are times when the EA advice is the best advice. If you've modified files in the Program Files S2Seasons/Pets directories, and know which ones they are, then you could try restoring the files from the CD. If you have a NO-CD EXE in, then replace it with the EA one temporarily. If you don't know what the problem is, then just follow the EA advice.

[LeaveMeAlone]

I haven't modified any files and I don't have a NO-CD EXE in.  I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here.

[Venusy]

I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here.

I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...."

This was what I meant by "EA advice". If you've tried everything else, then it looks like the best solution.

[phyllis_p]

I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here.

I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...."

This was what I meant by "EA advice". If you've tried everything else, then it looks like the best solution.

After my own experiments in patching, this is what I ended up doing for my sweetie's game when we got Celebrations.  I backed up his folder, uninstalled Seasons, patched Pets, reinstalled Seasons, inserted copy of back up, patched Seasons, installed Celebrations. Worked fine, works fine. Slightly time-consuming, which is why I did it for him - things like this annoy him, but I don't mind it.

[Simlover]

I got the "uninstall and reinstall" message when trying to patch seasons.  On Twains advise I did uninstall and reinstall Seasons and the patch worked fine.

[cenoura]

I've heard that installing seasons forces you to patch pets, likewise when installing celebrations. Don't have experience of this tho as I don't have the lastest games.