Copied, deleted, now it doesnt work Ok. First let me say I have two partitions on my hard drive, one for music and games the other for normal programs and such. I accidently installed TS2 originally on my C drive, which I use for my normal stuff, and recently bought university and nightlife and noticed my mistake. So what I did was just move allll the sims 2 files to my D drive, and install the other two expansions there along with it. Well they worked, game played and everything just fine, until I quit and deleted the original sims files from the C drive. Now I guess when I start up Nightlife it is still looking in the C drive for the original sims, and gives me a message saying it is not installed. Now my question is do I need to reinstall everything? Just reinstall the original? Or is there a way to make nightlife and university look at the files that are now in my D drive instead of looking for the files in the C? Thanks.
Ok, a friend suggested just moving the files back to where they were in the C drive.... and that worked fine. I didnt even think of that hahaha. So I'm back to playing fine, but would still like to know if there is a way to get nightlife to look at the files in my D drive rather than my C drive? Thank ya.
See the FAQ's in my signature and read thru them till you get to the one that deals with uninstalling the game. You need to fully remove the game from your puter manually, so that you eradicate the Windows registry entries. Then you can reinstall the game and tell the installer where to install it. Moving program files from one directory to another is a VBT (very bad thing) ... moving them from one partition to another is plain nuts.
Leticron. I'm sorry but I deleted your message. I felt it wasn't helpful to slightly conflicting sets of advice. The best advice here is perform a full manual uninstall as per the instructions in this link in the FAQs (which leads to the instructions given by Maxis ... so if it all goes pear-shaped, we can blame them ) Registry editing is not for clumsy attention deficient types. Ad hoc editing on the fly is for savants only.
Iight thanks. Can you inform me of the folder that saved games are saved into so I dont lose my houses and characters and everything?
Nah..that's OK Mirelly You're right...I shouldn't suggest Registry editing. People who know how to deal with Registry - issues, don't need my advise and for all the others , hints like that are way to dangerous That's why I didn't go into more detail -le
