blank ID icon in main menu

[beardeux]

Hi.  I have a house that does not show up in the main menu.  It's been blank for about a month now.  It did show back up only once, but it's been gone since.  I'm pretty sure the problem is with the house.  I tried to add an object to the house as that sometimes helps.  I went to copy to the library.  The family copied fine, the family with house copied fine, but when I evicted them to copy the house to the library, the box for copy was blank and the house showed up blank in the library.  In the main menu, the box is blank and when I click on it you get the two pictures, one of the family and the other of the house, the family is there, the house box is blank.
He has vacation homes and when there, those houses show up in the main menu.

I also tried to delete and replace the lot grid the house was on.  This resulted in seeing the lights from the house and the fish from his ponds left on the map where no lot existed including the lot grid.  I also moved the house to another lot.  When I went to make the transfer with the move tool, the box was blank.

The house plays fine, so I have continued to use it.  However, I find it disconcerting and am not sure what to make of it.  Does anyone have any suggestions on why this has happened and how to get it back.
thanks, Bear

ps  I've just tried copying the house to the library.  It went in blank.  I then started a new town and put the blank house into the game.  I loaded showing the house on the lot to the point where it asks if you want to rotate the house and the game froze.  I had to use the task manager to quit the game.  I think I can assume there was a haunted house in that blank icon ;-)

[lvrugger]

Bear, I have the same thing. The last 4 or 5 saves have no house icon. It still plays and I hope it will continue to work since I'm on generation 4 of my dynasty and really don't want to start over again.

[saltpastillen]

I've had the blank house for several generations in my ID, I've also had it in other games, mostly when I play a big lot, the save file is one I've played many times and I have a lot of objects on the lot. I don't know why the picture disappears, but it doesn't affect the playability of the save file.

[thesweetestpea]

It was established by Rica and myself that the likeliest cause of this is having a tent in a World Adventures chest. Check to see if this is possibly the problem.

[beardeux]

I hope your game will continue to work for you.  You might want to consider moving them into another house if that's allowed.
I have the house in several towns (as it's my favourite character and I regularly do backups) I tried to exchange my house with one which also turned out to be blank when I tried to save it (will have to deal with that, but it's not such a concern).  Used another and at first it seemed fine, icon in the main menu when the game started up and it played, but then my game crashed every time I tried to go back to the main menu.  So that didn't work either.

I ended up using a backup saved game file which had the icon.  I was thankful for that.  Had I saved it with the blank icon, it probably wouldn't work for me now.  So the older game file seems to be fine, icon present, played fine with no game crash.  I have to complete a handful of challenges again, but at least it is fairly current.  Better that than lose everything.  Thank goodness for backups.

Sweetest Pea, thanks for that info.  I do have a tent in a chest.  I'll remove it.  Don't want this to happen again.  However, in my second house that I discovered blank I don't have any chests, so no tent in one although he keeps one in his backpack.
Bear

[saltpastillen]

That was interesting news about the tent. I usually have a tent or three lying around in my games, so that is probably why.