The Sim Moves in.... But Won't Leave

[djlee777]

Okay so I move in a family into my house and its all fine everything is working, but if I want to move them out I can pick where they leave who leaves, but then I press the check mark.  At first you think it's fine because it says processing, but it doesn't, everything is moving the way it is supposed to but it won't process that.  The way I moved them out is by kicking them out, do you think that might be the problem.  This isn't the first time it happened, and it's annoying me.  Also I think it's just my game because it doesn't seem like anyone else has this problem.

[Pam]

I'm not sure about your question?  How are you trying to move them out that won't process?  Exactly what steps did you try to do?

[djlee777]

Ok, first I want to move two people out of my household that I recently moved in from the game. The way I moved these two out was by kicking them out, so it brings up the processing screen and it stays there for more than half an hour, so I have to revert to the last saved game because I have to end the Sims 3 game, but since it's in the processing mode I can't save.

[Phyrie]

I have the exact same problem!  I want to make one couple in my house move, but they won't go.  I have tried "moving" them with the phone.  I have tried editing them out with the town editor.  I have tried kicking them out.  I have tried sending them to a nice new house.  I have evicted another family (which worked!) so to make room for them in another house.  Nope, they won't go.  The game seems to accept the options to create a new household, and then says, "Processing" and then it just hangs there.  I've let it "process" for hours, just to see if it just needed time.  Nope.  Of course, then it's frozen and I need to restart the game.  I'm ready to lock the two in a windowless basement with no food or water and starve them out of there!!

Phyrie

[Pam]

Does this happen absolutely every time you try to move Sims?  Does your computer meet the minimum requirements to run the game?  I'm wondering if it's possibly a memory issue.  Maybe some of our more technical members will have some ideas.

[Phyrie]

My computer more than meets the requirements. 
I've only tried this with this one game (I tend to play one family at a time).  The couple I'm trying to move are the original couple I created in the beginning.  The other ones (a mother, her son and a teen girl) I moved in from "Edit Town" later.  I am trying to dump the original couple and just keep the new ones.

Phyrie

[djlee777]

Here... But I can move anyone onto the household just not out

[Phyrie]

I did it!!  But I'm not sure if I can explain HOW I did it!  I've tried so many things that they kind of run together.  But this is how I THINK it went:

I went into "Edit Town" and there I removed the whole family from the game.  That puts them on the clipboard.  THEN you separate them, and put each group back in the game (or not) as you like.  I put my new family back in their old house, and sent the separated couple to a new residence.

I'm very happy this worked, as I had set up a game with the two I wanted out in a tiny room in the cellar with no door, as a last resort.  I thought I could starve them to death and remove them that way.  Horrible, I know, but I was out of ideas.  Then I realized the woman was pregnant!  Well, that ended that experiment.  I just couldn't bring myself to murder a baby.  The whole idea of this made me incredibly uncomfortable, even now, just writing about it!  I know they are not real, and each time I delete a game I'm "killing" characters, but it's not the same.

So, if you're still having problems getting your Sims to move, try taking them right out of the game and putting them back.  It worked for me!  Good luck.

Phyrie