Bugs with WA that I just purchased

[Stormi71]

Against my better judgment, I bought WA yesterday because of the Origin sale. I had read about the travel bugs etc but presumed because this is an older EP and there have been so many patches since, that the big problems would have been fixed.
Anyway, I can't travel at all. I get to the destination and it's the missing sim problem, the UI is blank ( no sim, no funds etc). I have switched families and back again, closed the game and started again, and uninstalled WA and installed again. I was having problems with the cameras (which I had to get through buydebug), as in the photos wouldn't show up or register. Uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the cameras, but I still can't travel. I have tried all countries but none work. I will start a new game today and see if that works or not, but I'll be pretty disappointed if I can't get travel to work, as that is the whole point of that EP.
Any ideas of what I can try? I don't use mods, and I'm not very tech savvy (I know there's some files you can delete related to travel but then I read it can mess up your game later?)

[Trip]

That bug is usually save-specific. Are you able to travel in a different save?

Also, how old is the affected file? Lord known that myself and other dynasty players have to give up travel in dynasties after a point, because the save files just get too big.

[Stormi71]

It's only a fairly new save, maybe a couple of weeks real time, and I haven't played it much recently. So it's first generation, but it's a full house almost with two sims, two horses, a cat and dog. I haven't tried with another save yet, will do that today.
I did do a "save as" first because I didn't want to lose that family, but that didn't work, then I tried with the original save file, that didn't work. I guess if it's a bugged family then using a save as file would just save any glitches. I haven't had any problems whatsoever with any glitches in that save, though, bar the travel/camera one.
My computer is fine, has enough memory and space etc for it.
I read something about clearing out family inventory before travelling, too, because that can affect it, so I will also try that.
Thanks Trip
EDIT - Just created a new game, that Sim has travelled fine. So does that mean my other game with the problems won't be able to travel at all?

[LivvieLove]

As with all new expansions, it's highly encouraged to start new save files when attempting parts of those expansions. For some reason, older save files (doesn't matter if it was just a few weeks or a few days, if you installed the new expansion today - any save you open up that was prior to that installation is considered old) just don't handle it well.
I tried to take an older family to university when it came out, I remember I had only been playing them for a few days, but because it didn't have a "clean" start for my Sims to go by I ended up with a whole lot of bugs.

There are always some precautions anyone would take with World Adventures and any other type of travel (University, Into the Future), we always recommend you save prior to travel, and "save as" under a new name upon getting there.

Try it on a new file, it sound be mostly ok, if you still have UI problems, let us know and we'll work on the technical aspect of it.

[Stormi71]

Thanks Livvie, am playing a new game now and so far, so good, she's searching a tomb. I will see what happens when she finishes her vacation, hopefully no glitches. I save my games a lot, I'm a notorious saver. Having come to the PC version from the console version, which crashed or froze a lot, making me lose progress (or wiping whole save files), I save frequently and make back up saves!