The Search for Granny

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Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill I
was fit to explode.

Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to download
over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.

The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses hither
and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled it
up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.

And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.

Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but how?
Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
Ha! In a pigs ear.

How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I back
up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.

Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?

Granny -renamed.

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:
> Granny -renamed.

Glad to see you back here. You are a fun and unique person; always a
pleasure to read your posts. Long live your Sims!


---
Michelle
(SeaShel)

free the fish to reply

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:
> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>


Hi Gran!

Glad to see you back among us again. You caused quite an uproar going
on holiday like that. Don't leave us again, ok?

Ali

 

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If you've got XP you can get it all back if you create a new User as
Administrator. Then you can start in there all over again. A new folder is
created in that "User"s My Documents. It needs space though.
I used to be able to copy neighbourhoods over but the new Microsoft security
updates seem to have stopped all that.
I got all mine back as I remembered that I had copied the whole My Documents
Sims2 folder to a separate drive after I installed University first.
Recommended tip for future use!!
You could try the new User method and copy the original neighbourhoods from
there to an cd or dvd and copy them back to the first user's game. That
might work.

Someone told me the lots were all in the "compressed zip" on the University
cd but I couldn't get that way to work for me. Maybe someone else knows
how.

formerly
Skeatsan''co

"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VmA7e.12165$G8.9403@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill
> I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to
> download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses
> hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled
> it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but
> how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I
> back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>

 

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"Fizziwig2" <atthebackofthenorthwind@kingdomcom.co.uk> wrote in message
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> If you've got XP you can get it all back if you create a new User as
> Administrator.

Argh!! You are asking me to fiddle with the building blocks of the universe?
You know what will happen, just ask Maxon how far I got with creating a new
identity.
Is XP supposed to stand for Expert? I know what I call it.

.........
>
> Someone told me the lots were all in the "compressed zip" on the
> University cd but I couldn't get that way to work for me. Maybe someone
> else knows how.
>
This is what I was hoping. But thinking on it, didn;t installing the EP
overwrite whatever you had? I seem to recall a howl of anguish from me when
everything disappeared for the third time.

I will mooch through the Ex pack CDs and unzip a few things. If they are
there, then I will find them - perhaps - possibly, Errr. Hmmmm.

Time for bed, said Zebidee. 8(

Granny.

 

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Welcome back Granny! :')

There are 3 ways to get completely new original state neighbourhoods

1. Fish around on the CD to find the appropriate files and restore them (I
only tried this once it was too hard and I mucked it up)
2. Create a new user account and run the Sims once then just dump the entire
Sims folder from the new My Documents to the old one (also annoying IMHO)
3. Open up your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder and (if you have
neighbourhoods you wish to keep for later use) cut and paste the entire
Neighbourhoods folder to somewhere else on your HD (if you don't want to
save any of them just delete the thing). Then run the game and it will make
fresh clean original neighbourhoods for you. Next time you turn off the Sims
you can then open up your saved/backup neighbourhoods folder (if you kept
one) and move any neighbourhoods (N00? files) you wanted to keep back into
My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighbourhoods.

Did I make sense? Let me know if it wasn't clear enough and I'll try writing
it again differently.

--
Morituri Nolumus Mori

MM



"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VmA7e.12165$G8.9403@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill
I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to
download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses
hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled
it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but
how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I
back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>

 

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"Fizziwig2" <atthebackofthenorthwind@kingdomcom.co.uk> wrote in message
news:qfB7e.12233$G8.3327@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> If you've got XP you can get it all back if you create a new User as
> Administrator.

Ha!! I have found an old neighbourhood 2 saved on my H-drive. Trouble was I
had loaded this into the game before checking it through Simpe, and saw
there was only two houses in there. Spectre and the Smiths. I thought it was
a left over after the others had moved out.
Looking at it, by accident, in Simpe, I saw the whole mob were in the Sim
browser.

They were, too. Poor things had been thrown out of their houses and set in
little empty plots prior to moving to a lusher neighbourhood. I just never
thought of looking in the bins.

This is very gratifying. It must have been saved after I wrote about the
earthquake hitting the area. I can move them into my new Little Dumpling
neighbourhood without trouble. But it means a lot of house building again.
8(((
At least the Curious brothers are well housed, the eldest living alone with
his pea-green son, and Nervous safe in his own little bolt-hole. He won;t
last long once Loki goes on the prowl .

I think Mr Mephistopheles Jones, who I have decided is a psychopomp, (it
really is the only way to give him all the powers he has) will have some
harsh things to say about Our Loki. The Psycho House might just reappear on
a hill somewhere. But now I have two crazed scientists wandering about
looking for trouble, and one witch. The local park having its own little
glade stuffed with spell tables and magic mirrors so anyone who feels the
urge, and is that way inclined, can cast a quick spell then watch their
enemy wet their knickers in public.

Am I not good to my sweet little Sims?

Granny - not back in Simmish harness completely, but....

 

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"Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:BPC7e.11632$5F3.3444@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> Welcome back Granny! :')
>
> There are 3 ways to get completely new original state neighbourhoods
>
> 1. Fish around on the CD to find the appropriate files and restore them (I
> only tried this once it was too hard and I mucked it up)

It does look very complex. Not enough just to whip over a basic file, when
the characters are in one place, the lots in another. They haven;t made it
very easy. On purpose, I suspect.


> 2. Create a new user account and run the Sims once then just dump the
> entire
> Sims folder from the new My Documents to the old one (also annoying IMHO)

Whine....

> 3. Open up your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder and (if you have
> neighbourhoods you wish to keep for later use) cut and paste the entire
> Neighbourhoods folder to somewhere else on your HD (if you don't want to
> save any of them just delete the thing). Then run the game and it will
> make
> fresh clean original neighbourhoods for you.

Ahhhh! Not that i need it now, but you have to move the whole lot? I get
you.
I wondered that if I did that then something would crash. I never risked it.
Damned if I know why I didn;t risk it. Losing the whole lot in some crash or
other is second nature to me now.

I am SURE I have a CD somewhere with my old, lovely neighbourhoods therein,
but can i find it? No. My CDs are all neat and tidy in a big fat zip-up
folder, which weighs a ton, but the only Sim backup I can find is prior to
installing the Expansion pack, and that was the time I forgot to include the
neighbourhoods.
Please do not say a thing.

Granny.

 

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>
> Hi Gran!
>
> Glad to see you back among us again. You caused quite an uproar going on
> holiday like that. Don't leave us again, ok?
>
> Ali

Poooh! I got miffed. And I think a small break from Simming was needed
before I went crazy. I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
became horribly involved in making planets instead of neighbourhoods, with
about the same degree of success.

Ruddy chaos, in other words. Polka-dot cliffs and green sand on the beaches.
One small tweak for mankind and mountains a mile high all over little
rounded lumps.

I really don;t know why i bother. 8(

granny.

 

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Now I have heard that if you just delete the neighborhoods folder
completely, the game will remake the original neighborhoods.
What I would do is just move the neighborhoods folder to somewhere else on
your computer, run the game and see if it recreates them.

"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:VmA7e.12165$G8.9403@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill
I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to
download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses
hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled
it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but
how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I
back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>

 

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> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods,
> but how? Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just
> delete the neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new
> one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t
> I back up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed
> by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original
> neighbourhood one back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt
> and his piglets, and the ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my
> game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.

Well, that's the way I do it when I want my original neighborhoods back. I
move the enitre neighborhood folder to my desktop, then restart the game and
it makes a new one with the original neighborhoods in it!

Welcome back, Granny. I missed you.

Jeanie

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:
> "Fizziwig2" <atthebackofthenorthwind@kingdomcom.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:qfB7e.12233$G8.3327@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> If you've got XP you can get it all back if you create a new User as
>> Administrator.
>
> Ha!! I have found an old neighbourhood 2 saved on my H-drive.
> Trouble was I had loaded this into the game before checking it
> through Simpe, and saw there was only two houses in there. Spectre
> and the Smiths. I thought it was a left over after the others had
> moved out.
> Looking at it, by accident, in Simpe, I saw the whole mob were in the
> Sim browser.
>
> They were, too. Poor things had been thrown out of their houses and
> set in little empty plots prior to moving to a lusher neighbourhood.
> I just never thought of looking in the bins.
>
> This is very gratifying. It must have been saved after I wrote about
> the earthquake hitting the area. I can move them into my new Little
> Dumpling neighbourhood without trouble. But it means a lot of house
> building again. 8(((
> At least the Curious brothers are well housed, the eldest living
> alone with his pea-green son, and Nervous safe in his own little
> bolt-hole. He won;t last long once Loki goes on the prowl .
>
> I think Mr Mephistopheles Jones, who I have decided is a psychopomp,
> (it really is the only way to give him all the powers he has) will
> have some harsh things to say about Our Loki. The Psycho House might
> just reappear on a hill somewhere. But now I have two crazed
> scientists wandering about looking for trouble, and one witch. The
> local park having its own little glade stuffed with spell tables and
> magic mirrors so anyone who feels the urge, and is that way inclined,
> can cast a quick spell then watch their enemy wet their knickers in
> public.
>
> Am I not good to my sweet little Sims?
>
> Granny - not back in Simmish harness completely, but....

Go to SimsEstates2 and they have all of the original houses from all three
neighborhoods, plus the ones that were originally in the lot bin of the
game.

http://www.strategyplanet.com/thesims/simestates2/
Click on Real Estate, then Original.

HTH

Jeanie

 

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I have maybe three cd's and two folders with stuff (non Sims) that is more
than two years old (and never looked at) and I always remember to back it
up. It is only important stuff (Sims) that I forget to back up when I wipe a
HD *bangs head chanting - "thinking is your friend, thinking is your
friend"*

--
Morituri Nolumus Mori

MM



"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:a9D7e.12383$G8.2268@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:BPC7e.11632$5F3.3444@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Welcome back Granny! :')
> >
> > There are 3 ways to get completely new original state neighbourhoods
> >
> > 1. Fish around on the CD to find the appropriate files and restore them
(I
> > only tried this once it was too hard and I mucked it up)
>
> It does look very complex. Not enough just to whip over a basic file, when
> the characters are in one place, the lots in another. They haven;t made it
> very easy. On purpose, I suspect.
>
>
> > 2. Create a new user account and run the Sims once then just dump the
> > entire
> > Sims folder from the new My Documents to the old one (also annoying
IMHO)
>
> Whine....
>
> > 3. Open up your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder and (if you have
> > neighbourhoods you wish to keep for later use) cut and paste the entire
> > Neighbourhoods folder to somewhere else on your HD (if you don't want to
> > save any of them just delete the thing). Then run the game and it will
> > make
> > fresh clean original neighbourhoods for you.
>
> Ahhhh! Not that i need it now, but you have to move the whole lot? I get
> you.
> I wondered that if I did that then something would crash. I never risked
it.
> Damned if I know why I didn;t risk it. Losing the whole lot in some crash
or
> other is second nature to me now.
>
> I am SURE I have a CD somewhere with my old, lovely neighbourhoods
therein,
> but can i find it? No. My CDs are all neat and tidy in a big fat zip-up
> folder, which weighs a ton, but the only Sim backup I can find is prior to
> installing the Expansion pack, and that was the time I forgot to include
the
> neighbourhoods.
> Please do not say a thing.
>
> Granny.
>
>

 

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Obviously I don't know how to help you...just want to WELCOME you back!!
Smeraldina


"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> ha scritto nel
messaggio news:VmA7e.12165$G8.9403@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill
I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to
download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses
hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled
it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but
how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I
back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>

 

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"Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:5bK7e.11909$5F3.11281@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>I have maybe three cd's and two folders with stuff (non Sims) that is more
> than two years old (and never looked at)
>
Ha! And this is the problem, that: '(and never look at)'. You see when I
glance at a CD and think 'I haven;t looked at that for.... x months... Then
I scratch it off with scissors and sling it out.
Ditto everything else in my life. If it ain;t used, dump it. If it has only
been used once and you don;t want to use it again, dump it. if it was bought
on impulse and you regretted it as soon as you got home.... DUMP it.
Book hoarders have fits when they see this.

So, along the line I have lost quite a few backups I thought I would never
want again.
And knitting patterns. And books. And once, a husband.

and I always remember to back it
> up. It is only important stuff (Sims) that I forget to back up when I wipe
> a
> HD *bangs head chanting - "thinking is your friend, thinking is your
> friend"*
>
Have you not a wall close to your computer eye-line? I have. It is covered
with awful warnings that no longer register in my brain.
One says 'If in doubt, chuck it out.' Also 'Try REBOOT.' and, to my secret
shame a list of numbers that start on one side 12 (noon) 1, 2, to 12
(midnight) and on the other side '12, 13. 14. 15... to 23.'
That list is often used.....

Thinking is your friend.... 8(((

GG

 

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"Bluegenie2" <me@fuil.com> wrote in message
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> Now I have heard that if you just delete the neighborhoods folder
> completely, the game will remake the original neighborhoods.
> What I would do is just move the neighborhoods folder to somewhere else on
> your computer, run the game and see if it recreates them.
>
It is just as well that I didn;t know this before I looked in the
Strangetown house bin.

I am still puzzled about all the extra sims that appeared in a new
neighbourhood that appeared as one, and was full of unhoused Pleasantville
regulars though.

I have never seen Sims sitting on the floor in groups before. Has anyone
else?
I 'suppose' it was a sort of mix and match attempt by the program to replace
a genuine neighbourhood in a ungenuine SC4 map?
It was a pest, and got dumped, because they bought all their memories with
them again.

Granny G.

 

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Missed you....missed the giggles.... but there's not a chance in hell I
could help save your neighbourhoods.... anything beyond installing downloads
in this game is beyond me ;o))

~ jo

http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/mysimpage.php?user_id=223269
"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Or rather, the search 'of' being as I have just wallowed in ModTS2 untill
> I
> was fit to explode.
>
> Now never mind the soft-soap that was passed to me, and what I have not
> never seen no-how being as I have played 'catch up' not wanting to
> download
> over 32,000 assorted messages, and then 'cleaned up' all headings etc from
> my files. Nice clean OE, in fact.
>
> The thing is... Fidgety fingers has struck again. I moved Sims houses
> hither
> and thither being fed up of current setings and managed to lose all my old
> neighbourhoods in one fell swoop.
> Has anybody else started a new neighbourhood, thinking it would be about
> number six, and discovered the game had alloted it number one and filled
> it
> up with Goths and Pleasants, and a couple of others, but not housed...
> Sitting in the family bin on their little backsides looking mighty fed up.
>
> And so was I. My prefab estate has gone west along with all the carefully
> imported favourites from Strangetown, whatever. Poor Loki.
>
> Now I think there is a way to restore the original neighbourhoods, but
> how?
> Couldn;t find help in MTS2, bar one person saying 'just delete the
> neighbourhood whatsit file and the game will make a new one for you.'
> Ha! In a pigs ear.
>
> How many more times am I going to start from scratch? And why didn;t I
> back
> up The Ruptured Duck? I can build that pub with my eyes closed by now.
>
> Save me all that stress. Tell me how to get the original neighbourhood one
> back again along with Sweet Circe, General Grunt and his piglets, and the
> ever-popular Not-only Nervous, but in my game a Complete Wreck, Subject?
>
> Granny -renamed.
>
>
>

 

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"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim@S.P.A.M.bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:5bK7e.11909$5F3.11281@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> >I have maybe three cd's and two folders with stuff (non Sims) that is
more
> > than two years old (and never looked at)
> >
> Ha! And this is the problem, that: '(and never look at)'. You see when I
> glance at a CD and think 'I haven;t looked at that for.... x months...
Then
> I scratch it off with scissors and sling it out.
> Ditto everything else in my life. If it ain;t used, dump it. If it has
only
> been used once and you don;t want to use it again, dump it. if it was
bought
> on impulse and you regretted it as soon as you got home.... DUMP it.
> Book hoarders have fits when they see this.
>
> So, along the line I have lost quite a few backups I thought I would never
> want again.
> And knitting patterns. And books. And once, a husband.
>
Well, that's understandable.

Granny, I thought you just removed the neighbourhood files from My Documents
(put
them somewhere else, just in case) and the game created a whole nice new set
for you. But I've never done it, so what do I know?

Best wishes
Maxon

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:

> I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
> became horribly involved in making planets instead of
> neighbourhoods,
> with about the same degree of success.

Planets? Where would that be?

T.

 

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"Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> Granny Grumpling wrote:
>
>> I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
>> became horribly involved in making planets instead of neighbourhoods,
>> with about the same degree of success.
>
> Planets? Where would that be?
>
> T.
>

Pandromeda. MojoWorld. http://www.pandromeda.com/products/

I see, with a sense of dismay that they have bought out a bigger version.
<quiet sobs>

http://www.cherryjam.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wumpus/graphics/mojo/mojohome.htm

Will tell you why I tend to break down into tears when I think about this
program. I love it. It drives me insane.

BTW, my pics haven't been added to for over a year. 8(
Whole site is a bit rough and ready and half done. Don;t care.

GG.

 

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Granny Grumpling waved a magic wand at the 'puter, changed into a moose
(OOPS!) - tried again and came up with:
> And once, a husband.
>


LOL! Got him home, regretted, and then scratched him off with scissors?...
or was it used him once and didn't want to use him again?

--
--- Mike --- http://www.livin-it-up.net
Member of eKoOK (evil Kult of Object Kreators)
"The ultimate goal is load time of 24 hours!"
"The ultimate goal is filling every hard drive in the world!"
Mwahahaha!

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:

> "Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:3ca7oeF6nrp09U1@individual.net...
>> Granny Grumpling wrote:
>>> I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
>>> became horribly involved in making planets instead of
>>> neighbourhoods, with about the same degree of success.
>> Planets? Where would that be?
> Pandromeda. MojoWorld. http://www.pandromeda.com/products/

That is... beautiful. But tell me, can you actually do something
with the planet? Or is just developing?

T.

 

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"Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> Granny Grumpling wrote:
>
>> "Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
>> news:3ca7oeF6nrp09U1@individual.net...
>>> Granny Grumpling wrote:
>>>> I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
>>>> became horribly involved in making planets instead of
>>>> neighbourhoods, with about the same degree of success.
>>> Planets? Where would that be?
>> Pandromeda. MojoWorld. http://www.pandromeda.com/products/
>
> That is... beautiful. But tell me, can you actually do something with the
> planet? Or is just developing?
>
> T.
This is the snag... I dare say there are a lot of people out there who can
use what they develop. There are options for movies, but I am not very
interested in doing that. No outlet. and you need a whopping computer, or
two or three gathered together.. Ugh.

The program includes an 'advanced' interface (I don;t use that, either.
Simple is bad enough for me) that lets you design your fractals by way of
function graphs. It looks... horrible, but according to the very fat manual
this is what film makers use when designing effects, and things... What
things, I dread to think.

I have grown foregrounds, and backgrounds that I have mixed and matched with
other progs, like Bryce, and made a few greeting cards but only for my own
use. 8(
Mostly I use the program in the same way that more physical ... I was going
to put 'idiots', but on sober reflection, perhaps not... I use the program
in the same way that other people might use a rock face.
'What for do you want to climb up that for then?'
a) because it's there.
b) to see if I can reach the top.

I attack Pandromeda because I bought it, and I wanna see if I can crawl
halfway up, at best.
I am also jolly impressed at how beautiful it is. Even making a simple lumpy
planet in plain white, can be amazing to move around, shifting the sun here,
there and all over and just thinking 'I wish I could go there...'
Even on my machine, moving in real-time redraws very quickly. Slower when
you add more maths, naturally. Bloody slow when you import a few expert
users lumps and colours.
Almost a full stop when you render a huge, complicated picture.
'It may take hours...' warns the manual.
Gerrof? Fancy... Moral, stick to normal or low rendering.

Ah well. I am glad I bought it. It frustrates the heck out of me. 8)))

Granny.

 

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Wow, you could make some awesome pics for sims2 with it

"Granny Grumpling" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:3cc8j3F6mb0dsU1@individual.net...
> > Granny Grumpling wrote:
> >
> >> "Taemon" <Taemon@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
> >> news:3ca7oeF6nrp09U1@individual.net...
> >>> Granny Grumpling wrote:
> >>>> I mean, I am almost melded to this chair. 8(
> >>>> became horribly involved in making planets instead of
> >>>> neighbourhoods, with about the same degree of success.
> >>> Planets? Where would that be?
> >> Pandromeda. MojoWorld. http://www.pandromeda.com/products/
> >
> > That is... beautiful. But tell me, can you actually do something with
the
> > planet? Or is just developing?
> >
> > T.
> This is the snag... I dare say there are a lot of people out there who can
> use what they develop. There are options for movies, but I am not very
> interested in doing that. No outlet. and you need a whopping computer, or
> two or three gathered together.. Ugh.
>
> The program includes an 'advanced' interface (I don;t use that, either.
> Simple is bad enough for me) that lets you design your fractals by way of
> function graphs. It looks... horrible, but according to the very fat
manual
> this is what film makers use when designing effects, and things... What
> things, I dread to think.
>
> I have grown foregrounds, and backgrounds that I have mixed and matched
with
> other progs, like Bryce, and made a few greeting cards but only for my own
> use. 8(
> Mostly I use the program in the same way that more physical ... I was
going
> to put 'idiots', but on sober reflection, perhaps not... I use the
program
> in the same way that other people might use a rock face.
> 'What for do you want to climb up that for then?'
> a) because it's there.
> b) to see if I can reach the top.
>
> I attack Pandromeda because I bought it, and I wanna see if I can crawl
> halfway up, at best.
> I am also jolly impressed at how beautiful it is. Even making a simple
lumpy
> planet in plain white, can be amazing to move around, shifting the sun
here,
> there and all over and just thinking 'I wish I could go there...'
> Even on my machine, moving in real-time redraws very quickly. Slower when
> you add more maths, naturally. Bloody slow when you import a few expert
> users lumps and colours.
> Almost a full stop when you render a huge, complicated picture.
> 'It may take hours...' warns the manual.
> Gerrof? Fancy... Moral, stick to normal or low rendering.
>
> Ah well. I am glad I bought it. It frustrates the heck out of me. 8)))
>
> Granny.
>
>

 

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Granny Grumpling wrote:

> Ah well. I am glad I bought it. It frustrates the heck out of
> me. 8)))

I fully understand. I won't buy it

T.