No, rwills i have been playing sims for years i no how to download, it's just if it's not made with Simpe it doesn't show up. I know how to unzip. Thanks for all your help, anything else that can help?
Well, there is one thing you can try. Don't know why it works, but it sometimes does (and will do no harm regardless).
When you open the game, whatever your custom content screen is set to, set it to the other option and enter the game proper.
Then, in game options, whatever the custom content settings are, set them to the other option and quit the game.
Open the game anew and reset the game option custom content settings back to as they were before. Then quit, open the game again and set the custom content screen back to the way it was before.
Sometimes this will kickstart things to as they should be.
One other thing to check is to make sure that any packages designated Collection are in the Collections folder rather than the Downloads folder.
If the problem persists, maybe asking about it at the SimPE help forum will provide clues.