World not showing up in-game after being exported (and installed)

[Frey]

Hi! I'm having a little... issue with exporting my world. I reconstructed the routing data, exported the world, opened the launcher, went to "Loads" (or whatever it's called in english, but where screenschots and exports are), selected the world and clicked on "show file", and then double clicked on the file to install it. The world shows up under Downloads, but is nowhere to be seen in the Installed Content tab, and it doesn't show up in-game either. I also tried copying the file to the Installed Worlds folder with no success. I already tried twice. Am I missing something?

I remember this happening to me with Riverview the first time I downloaded. That time I think I fixed it by downloading it in-game, but since this is no store content, it obviously won't work. Any other ideas?

Please help! 

Edit: just to clarify, this is the first time I export the world (I wanted to do some testing). The launcher says that "it's already installed" though. I'm using the Riverview map, can it be that the game is somehow confusing Riverview with my world, although they are named differently? Otherwise I have no idea.

[Frey]

Ehrr I already solved this. In case anyone else finds it useful, I found instructions in MTS for solving this:

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=391001

Basically you have delete the world from Installed Worlds (if it's there), from the Downloads folder and from the Exports folder. Then you have to empty the DCCache folder an reinstall everything from the Downloads folder again. Make sure you stiull have all the installed content in the Downloads folder though or you might lose suff!

Thanks anyways

[PolarBair]

Wow, I'm having this problem now and I'm near ready to give up on caw. I've deleted everything I can think of and can't get the new version of my custom world to show up in game. Very frustrating.

Edit:

I just deleted everything. All game saves, All saved Sims,  everything in the WorldCache folder, the entire DCCache folder, everything in the downloads folder I moved to a new folder on the desktop, and deleted everything in the exports folder.

So after all of that it'll be like playing a clean install except all the library stuff is still there.

So then I exported the new version of my custom world again and moved it to the downloads folder then launched the launcher and installed and it STILL doesn't show up in game.

What in the world am I missing? no pun intended

Edit:

I tried uninstalling all my mods and tried again to see if that would help but no joy. I'm starting to wonder if this is a problem with the recent patch.

Next I'm going to try reinstalling the older version of my custom world and see if that one sticks.

Edit:

Well, I was able to install the old version and it showed up in game so I guess that rules out it being a problem with the recent patch.

Edit Again:

So this time I launch the game first and then from in the game I click on Open Launcher and then I do the install while the game is running.

So after the install when I bring the game back to front I see a message in game that says, "Your purchased world has been installed successfully. You may now choose it from the New Game menu."

So now I'm thinking "HA! I finally outsmarted you." So I click New Game and look in the menu and guess what, IT'S NOT THERE!

Oh please, Somebody just shoot me now. lol

[Chuckles_82]

Sigh. Me too. I did a factory reset and everything Strangely enough, my package has a little lock on it. Anyone know why that is?)

Edit: There is a thread about this problem over at the official forum:

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/604830.page

[Chuckles_82]

Louise posted a link for a workaround for this at Neighborly Sims

http://www.flyingacres.com/NS/index.php?topic=2850.msg42723;topicseen#msg42723

I've just tried it and it works! Woohoo!

[PolarBair]

Awesome. Thanks Chunkles. I'll give that a try.