Jumbled thumbnails in sim bin

[Katwoman214]

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hi all.  I am having this issue where the thumbnails in my sim bin do not match with the correct sim.  It's not all of them, just a few.  For instance, I have some male thumbnails in the female bin and repeat thumbnails for some.  When I click the sim the correct one shows up, the thumbnail is just wrong.

Does that make sense?  Any help is appreciated.

[BeosBoxBoy]

Katwoman, this sometimes happens when things are added or deleted via Body Shop or Sims2Packs.

In CAS (in game) you can hold down the CTRL key and right click the thumbnail, this should cause the game to generate a new thumbnail. If this doesn't work for some reason, you should move to the next step of deleting the thumbnail packages (id est, BuildModeThumbnails.package, CANHObjectsThumbnails.package, CASThumbnails.package, DesignModeThumbnails.package, ObjectThumbnails.package) from:

PCs:
~\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails

Macs:
~/Home/EA Games/The Sims 2/Thumbnails

Make sure you only delete the files in the folder, not the folder itself.

Also you will want to delete cigen.package (the Body Shop thumbnail package) from:

PCs:
~\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

Macs:
~/Home/EA Games/The Sims 2

In some extreme instances (not every time) it is also wise to delete Groups.cache from:

PCs:
~\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

Macs:
~/Home/EA Games/The Sims 2

Hope this helps

All of this is safe to do, the game will re-create all the necessary files.

[Katwoman214]

Ok great!  I already delete the Groups.cache before I start the game.  I was getting that not starting thing a while back.

Thanks so much for your help beosboxboy!!