Someone just lost their neighborhoods because of advise given in a closed thread.

Here is the problem:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=478141

Here is the closed thread that gave the (bad) advice:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=308504

Would it be possible to add a warning to the second thread, to let people know that their shipped neighborhoods may reset to their original state if they delete their Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config folder? If the person just backs up their save game first, then they can restore their played neighborhoods once their other problems have been resolved.

Thanks!

Last edited by Mootilda : 7th Jun 2012 at 11:44 PM. Reason: Resolved

Done, thanks for pointing this out.

Thanks for adding the warning. I just hate to see people lose neighborhoods, especially on advice that they find here.

This is most puzzling, obviously that advice was written 4 years ago, but for me deleting or editing the config file still does not impact the neighborhoods files at all.

I'm running Sims 2 with all EPs, Sps and patches on Win 7 and am having nothing bad happen to my EA played neighborhoods if I delete the config file. In fact, the only way I can forsee the game resetting those files to default is if they are deleted. Surely any corruption would just result in the files being unreadable, but to be reset to default implies that they are removed.

I'm curious as to why you and others are finding this to happen, Mootilda- perhaps you can explain exactly what you did, what your game setup is and what the creation date is on the hood files?

Are you using AGS or any other utility that might impact this?

Obviously to backup before deleting or editing files is good advice, but I'm curious as to why I can delete the config file but you cannot!

I would like to suggest that this discussion should really be continued in the Help thread, as discussion of the problem has nothing to do with Site Issues:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=478141