Careers icons gone

Hi

I have nightlife, uni, and of course the sims 2 installed on my pc. It is
running nicely and i love the game. Recently the careers icons disappeared
from view - that is where thye normally appear they are not anymore. This is
everywhere, in uni when choosing majors, on the computer, in the paper, and
in the jobs and skills section of sims status. They are gone, and i dont
know why. They were there before nightlife, and there after i installed it,
only just now this happened. Restarting the game does not help. I have no
downloads for the sims 2 installed, just the expansion packs listed. Is
there an easy way to fix this or do i have to re-install it all over again?

Thanks
Barry B

"Barry B" <qwertyuiop.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have nightlife, uni, and of course the sims 2 installed on my pc. It is
> running nicely and i love the game. Recently the careers icons disappeared
> from view - that is where thye normally appear they are not anymore. This
is
> everywhere, in uni when choosing majors, on the computer, in the paper,
and
> in the jobs and skills section of sims status. They are gone, and i dont
> know why. They were there before nightlife, and there after i installed
it,
> only just now this happened. Restarting the game does not help. I have no
> downloads for the sims 2 installed, just the expansion packs listed. Is
> there an easy way to fix this or do i have to re-install it all over
again?

This was supposed to have been fixed in the patch, but basically your

objects.package

file gets corrupted.

Basically, replace the corrupt objects.package from the \Program Files\EA
Games\Nightlife\ something or other folder with one from the Nightlife cd.
It's part of a zip file called "Compressed", and i think might be on disc 2.

MTS2 used to have a link on how to fix it, but they (stupidly) removed it,
since as I said, Maxis was supposed to have fixed the problem, but it still
crops up.