Game Help:Game Problem-Isolating the Problem Folder - Revision history

Whiterider at 00:10, 17 May 2009

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Whiterider: /* Problem in Any Other Folder */

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‎Problem in Any Other Folder

Whiterider at 12:55, 3 January 2008

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HystericalParoxysm at 09:37, 19 April 2007

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HystericalParoxysm at 09:27, 19 April 2007

2007-04-19T09:27:23Z

HystericalParoxysm: /* No Problem */

2007-04-12T17:04:25Z

‎No Problem

HystericalParoxysm at 10:45, 11 April 2007

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HystericalParoxysm at 10:06, 11 April 2007

2007-04-11T10:06:35Z

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=Game Problem - Isolating the Problem Folder=

If you removed your entire ''My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2'' folder, allowing the game to regenerate a new batch of default user files, and the problem went away, you likely have something wrong with one or more of your user files. It is now a matter of narrowing down which folder has the problem.

To do this, you are going to test each folder to see if it is your problem.

==Put Back Original Files==

Right now, your original user files are moved out of the game. We need to put them back before we can begin testing them.

Open your ''My Documents\EA Games\'' folder. You should have two subfolders in it - ''The Sims 2'' and ''The Sims 2 Backup''. ''The Sims 2'' was created when we renamed the original and just has the default files. We don't need this folder anymore, so right-click on it and choose Delete to send it to your computer's Recycle Bin.

Now you need to restore your original user data. Right-click on ''The Sims 2 Backup'' and choose rename. Rename that folder to ''The Sims 2'' so it's back the way it was before. Make sure you spell it right, put the spaces in, and capitalize it correctly or the game won't recognize your files.

==Remove Folder==

Now that your original user files are back in place, we're going to remove each folder, one by one, to test whether taking it out

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 ==Remove Folder==
-Now that your original user files are back in place, we're going to remove each folder, one by one, to test whether taking it out
+Now that your original user files are back in place, we're going to remove each folder, one by one, to test whether taking it out fixes the problem.  To do this, open your ''My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\'' folder.  You'll see a list of subfolders inside it that looks something like this:
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