Missing previews for custom clothing: how to fix?

[AnnaM]

I have a few custom outfits that I downloaded and they work fine, but the in-game preview (when you buy clothes for example, or in CAS) shows the "default" outfit for the category instead. When selected, the preview mannequin on the left shows the correct custom outfit, so it seems to be a problem solely with the preview "icon".

So they're usable, but hard to find in the list because of the wrong icon. I'm sure there must be a way to get the correct icon to show, maybe using Body Shop or SimPE, but since I do almost no customization myself other than downloading custom stuff, I have no idea how. If anybody could point me in the right direction (or to the right URL), I'd be very grateful. (I've done searches in a couple of places and come up with nothing, but maybe I'm not that good at searching...)

[Jfederated]

Does that Control/RightClick on the pic trick work?  I know it does w/goofed thumbnails in the CAS simbin.

[Arina]

If that doesn't work, try deleting CASThumbnails.package in Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails. That will force the game to regenerate a picture for everything in CAS.

[AnnaM]

Thank you! The Ctrl-RightClick didn't work when buying clothes, but it worked in CAS :-) I'd never heard of it before...

I suppose deleting the file would have been quicker (I had several outfits with the same problem), but I prefer in-game solutions when I find them... plus I needed to prune some clothes out anyway, so a visit to CAS was overdue.

[Gwill]

Deleting the thumbnail packages is not quicker in the long run, especially if you only have a few broken tumbnails and lots of CC, because those thumbnails will need to re-generate the next time you try to look at them, and that takes time.