something weird last time I used SimPE

[Scruff]

Every sim in my neighborhood- including neighborhoods I haven't played in months- were all "unknown." Their indivual images were all potato heads. I have no idea how this could have happened- no power failures or game crashes, nothing weird while saving or shutting down the game.

I tried uninstalling SimPE and redownloading it which did not help at all.

Could it be a strange side effect of something I downloaded?

[ancienthighway]

The important question is whether the sims in game are showing the proper memories and friends.  If they are all with Unknown, you probably have a bad 'hood.  

Try going to a fresh 'hood also.  Create new families and create some friendships.  Then go into SimPE and look at that 'hood to see if you have the same problem.

[Scruff]

In game, everything looks normal- normal memories, nothing unusual.  In SimPE, when I use the left side menu, click on sims, the names of every sim is "unknown". Under Neighborhood memories- there's nothing- completely blank. Under the pull down menu from the top under neighborhoods where it says Sim discription- blank, no sims listed. Under households- every sim in the household is "unknown". If I click on an unknown sim- they still have their skills, jobs, personality, aspirations- but they're potato heads with no friends or connections to any other sims. I haven't created a new neighborhood yet to test that, but thought I would clarify a bit on what I've found so far.

[miros1]

Did you open the Neighborhood package or did you go through the Neighborhood Browser?  I think I heard that happens if you just open the Neighborhood package.

[Scruff]

I had been trying opening from the neighborhood browser, but after reading the above, I tried opening the package and had the same result. I still haven't tried emptying the downloads folder.

[ancienthighway]

What neighborhood are you trying to open?  If you aren't opening the main neighborhood then you'll have unknowns.  All of the sims are kept in the main 'hood's file.

[Tenshii~Akari]

Do you have "No Meta Informations" checked under the "Extra" menu?  If so, un-check it.

[Scruff]

ancienthighway- it was happening in every neighborhood.

TenshiiAkari12 - that was the ticket! Thank you so much!

Problem solved.

[Tenshii~Akari]

Glad I could help.  :angel: