Not sure where I should post this, please tell me if it's in the wrong place.

Okay so I've been (trying) to play som Sims 3 today, after not playing at all the last 7-8 months, and I've encountered some problems in CAS.

In CAS I tried changing a sim from teen->young adult, but nothing happened. I tried changing the skintone by simply dragging the slider, and nothing happened. I also tried to change from female->male but again nothing happened.

However, I wasn't discouraged by this, I simply chose to create another sim where I wouldn't have to change these things...
And so when I was in the middle of changing the color of his shirt I found that I couldn't get from the "Create a style"-mode, both the 'cancel' and 'save' are grey and I can't click on them. I can save the new "version" of his shirt, spin him, take screenshots and zoom and click on all menus and everything, except getting from that mode.

This happened earler during the day as well and I solved that by re-starting the game, because that was just minor changes on an old sim, but I just don't want to lose this guy! Is there any way I can solve this without losing the sim I've created?

(I have all the latest updates/patches to the game and I do have some mods/CC)

This won't fix the underlying problem, but if you can access all the menus except cancel and save, does this mean that you can access the menu on the sim to save a copy to the library? If so, you can put a copy in the library, restart, then go back into CAS and load a pre-made sim: that guy.


Then you can go back and see if the problem still happens if you don't have your CC in there.

This happens to me all the time. I don't know if it will work for you, but I keep clicking the various color swatches on the left side of the create-a-style and/or undo/redo until the confirmation button become accessible again.

Have you tried removing all custom content, deleting the cache files, and then testing your game to either solve the issue or rule out custom content as the cause?

• Sims 3 - Game Problems
  For generic game related issues, please see this FAQ:
  • Game Help:Sims 3 Game Problem^wiki
  Try each of the steps listed to either solve the problem or rule out Custom Content as the cause.
  
  

Don't forget SIms3Pack content, either. Most of the time, being stuck in CAST means you have a corrupt pattern that may have been packaged in a Sims3Pack CC you downloaded. Or those patterns created wrongly in Create-A-Pattern.

Means to do all 3 steps in the FAQ to see if issue is fixed with new user files.
If it's fixed, then next step is to find that borked Sims3Pack.