Sims 2 reinstallation advice please!

External Since: Jun 01, 2008 Posts: 6

Hi I had to format my hard drive and backed up the Sims2 files I thought
important. I have the expansion packs University and Nightlife. But the
problem is none of my neighborhoods are showing up or the new people etc.
Which files should you backup and where do they go to restore the game to
the previous settings? I think I have restored them to the wrong places.
Please help. It's taken years of playing to get where I was.I couldn't bear
to start at year zero again.BTW I have partitioned drive so D drive with the
download files etc are intact.Thanx

External Since: Mar 29, 2005 Posts: 350

Magus Rex wrote:
> Hi I had to format my hard drive and backed up the Sims2 files I
> thought important. I have the expansion packs University and
> Nightlife. But the problem is none of my neighborhoods are showing up
> or the new people etc. Which files should you backup and where do
> they go to restore the game to the previous settings? I think I have
> restored them to the wrong places. Please help. It's taken years of
> playing to get where I was.I couldn't bear to start at year zero
> again.BTW I have partitioned drive so D drive with the download files
> etc are intact.Thanx

The files you need are those in My Documents/EAGames/The Sims 2. Your
neighborhoods are in there, just replace those in the new My Documents
folder with your old files and you should have your sims back. Do the same
with any of the other files you may have customised, such as Cameras if you
had a camera mod, transfer your downloads over and all should be as it was.

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kat
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