Peni Griffin
8th Apr 2012, 02:32 PM
After recovery from a hard-drive crash as discussed elsewhere, I have restored the most recent backup of my custom hood. Before loading the game, since a previous attempt at restoration after running the neighborhood through the hoodchecker went bad, I looked in SimPE and confirmed that everything appeared normal.
On loading the game and the neighborhood, however, the same problem recurred, to whit: All of my CAS sims have been randomly renamed, mostly with a name for the wrong gender.
For example, the Aerius household should consist of Greg Aerius, Ben Aerius, John Amos Aerius, and their cat Eartha, all built in CAS. However, Greg is now named JoAnne Wong, Ben is now named Dagmar Buckingham, John Amos is Margaret Taylor, and Eartha is Alabama.
All born in-game and premade sims retain their proper names.
I'm trying to look on the bright side and say that at least the hood checker isn't to blame; but as bright sides go that isn't looking very bright.
Drama Acres consists of a custom hood, the vacation subhoods, a university, and a downtown. I have successfully restored from backups before with no such issues. The custom content was added prior to loading the game, for obvious reasons, and removing it would seem to be the next step; but of course that's going to mean restoring the hood again, which is a several-hours-long process. At least this can be the last time, as I can restore to my backup location and then copy that file repeatedly; but this one will have to go. And it takes over twelve hours to recover the thing. :faceslap:
Given that there'll be a considerable lapse of time before I can do any testing on this at all (since presumably the names are just changed now and this copy of the game is broken), I'm hoping somebody can make a suggestion that will make things go faster.
I have some older backups, but the most recent is about a month old. Obviously I want the one that's only missing one day of play, not an entire rotation, if I can get it. But I will be checking those, too.
Anyone who can help me fix this is my hero and will get a baby named after him/her.
:cry:
ETA: Curiouser and curiouser! By way of more info-gathering, I went back into SimPE before deleting the neighborhood, and the Aerius family still looks fine there!
Also, forgot to mention that I had added Mansion & Garden before restoring the neighborhood. Testing whether that's the problem is problematic, as Deluxe won't let me uninstall single EPs - I'd have to do another full uninstall-reinstall, which should not be my first resort. If I downloaded Any Game Starter, would that allow me to reliably test this?
On loading the game and the neighborhood, however, the same problem recurred, to whit: All of my CAS sims have been randomly renamed, mostly with a name for the wrong gender.
For example, the Aerius household should consist of Greg Aerius, Ben Aerius, John Amos Aerius, and their cat Eartha, all built in CAS. However, Greg is now named JoAnne Wong, Ben is now named Dagmar Buckingham, John Amos is Margaret Taylor, and Eartha is Alabama.
All born in-game and premade sims retain their proper names.
I'm trying to look on the bright side and say that at least the hood checker isn't to blame; but as bright sides go that isn't looking very bright.
Drama Acres consists of a custom hood, the vacation subhoods, a university, and a downtown. I have successfully restored from backups before with no such issues. The custom content was added prior to loading the game, for obvious reasons, and removing it would seem to be the next step; but of course that's going to mean restoring the hood again, which is a several-hours-long process. At least this can be the last time, as I can restore to my backup location and then copy that file repeatedly; but this one will have to go. And it takes over twelve hours to recover the thing. :faceslap:
Given that there'll be a considerable lapse of time before I can do any testing on this at all (since presumably the names are just changed now and this copy of the game is broken), I'm hoping somebody can make a suggestion that will make things go faster.
I have some older backups, but the most recent is about a month old. Obviously I want the one that's only missing one day of play, not an entire rotation, if I can get it. But I will be checking those, too.
Anyone who can help me fix this is my hero and will get a baby named after him/her.
:cry:
ETA: Curiouser and curiouser! By way of more info-gathering, I went back into SimPE before deleting the neighborhood, and the Aerius family still looks fine there!
Also, forgot to mention that I had added Mansion & Garden before restoring the neighborhood. Testing whether that's the problem is problematic, as Deluxe won't let me uninstall single EPs - I'd have to do another full uninstall-reinstall, which should not be my first resort. If I downloaded Any Game Starter, would that allow me to reliably test this?