Author Topic: Tech Issue - Brown Boxes in Sims 3 Pets Game Launcher with CC Installation  (Read 4585 times)

Offline Brownie816

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***Sorry if this has been asked/answered already. If so please direct me to the appropriate topic in which it has been resolved***

Anyone have a fix for these brown boxes in the Sims 3 Game/ CC Launcher?
I’ve uninstalled all the CC and then reinstalled it, changed the properties of the folder to "read only" and made me the owner under properties> security> advanced, cleaned out the Cache and just about everything the wiki and forums (Google search) said to do. I’m contemplating on nuking it and then reinstalling CC to see if that works but that is a LAST RESORT kind of option.

Nuking being:
-Going to My Documents> Electronic Arts> Sims 3 and changing "Sims 3" to "Sims 3 BackUp".
-Starting the game like normal, creating and saving a test sim, then quiting the game.
-Moving files from "Sims 3 BackUp" to the newly created "Sims 3" folder.

Picture of the issue can be found here: [Link removed: tumblr page no longer available]

When I clicked “select all” I only have the option to open the file location or delete them. Last night I went on a CC downloading spree. While a good majority installed and works, I have about 100 of these boxes. Any kind of help on this issue would be great.

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Re: Tech Issue - Brown Boxes in Sims 3 Pets Game Launcher with CC Installation
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2015, 11:19:49 PM »
Hi Brownie,

It sounds as though the custom content is not installing correctly. Therefore showing the brown boxes in the launcher. You may need to go to the site you downloaded them and either re-download them and install to see if that helps, or contact the creator or website that you downloaded the content from to see if they can be further help.

Hope this helps, and Welcome to the Forum!! :)

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Offline Brownie816

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Re: Tech Issue - Brown Boxes in Sims 3 Pets Game Launcher with CC Installation
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2015, 11:26:26 PM »
Thank you MrsFlynn. However when I go to locate the files that I've downloaded with the option selected it doesn't take me directly to that said file and instead takes me to the whole folder. Figuring out which CC and where I got it from is kind of difficult, so if there is another way to go about fixing this that would be awesome.

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Re: Tech Issue - Brown Boxes in Sims 3 Pets Game Launcher with CC Installation
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2015, 11:30:56 PM »
Here's a couple of links that maybe helpful with sorting out custom content.

Removing Bad Custom Content
http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/custom-content-cc/bad-cc

Game Help: TS3 Custom Content
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_Custom_Content

How To Get Rid of Unwanted Custom Content
https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/01/tutorial-how-to-get-rid-of-unwanted-custom-content.html

Game Help: Finding Problem Custom Content
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Finding_Problem_Custom_Content

Game Help: TS3 CC Basics
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_CC_Basics
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Re: Tech Issue - Brown Boxes in Sims 3 Pets Game Launcher with CC Installation
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2015, 11:51:20 PM »
Thank you very much (: