Okay, so I've had a looong break from Simming, and have been preoccupied with some other stuff. Then I installed TS2, but had some directory troubles because of this computer having two hard-drives, and TS2 not knowing how to deal with that. Anyway, I found a workaround that seems to have worked. (It involved a command prompt, and was very scary.)
Now I have a little mystery on my hands, though. The first backup I put in, after getting things working, wasn't current. I made a new copy of the files on my laptop yesterday, and let those overwrite the previous ones. I've had the Scheiler lots open on the laptop, and I've seen with my own eyes that everything is just as I left it. There hasn't been any loss of anything. However... The files I copied off of it, and transferred to the desktop computer, aren't there? When I opened the Orchard lot on my desktop, the family portrait showed an earlier version of the family, minus the two youngest children. Then the lot crashed, yay...
I'm going to have to investigate a bit about what's going on here, but there could be Scheiler updates, and maybe even... Starblooms in the future. And you know something? I found a lot of pictures from last year, when I played the family at the Orchard. There's probably enough for an update there already. So no matter how uncooperative my game's gonna want to be, there's most likely something coming... suddenly.
Now I have a little mystery on my hands, though. The first backup I put in, after getting things working, wasn't current. I made a new copy of the files on my laptop yesterday, and let those overwrite the previous ones. I've had the Scheiler lots open on the laptop, and I've seen with my own eyes that everything is just as I left it. There hasn't been any loss of anything. However... The files I copied off of it, and transferred to the desktop computer, aren't there? When I opened the Orchard lot on my desktop, the family portrait showed an earlier version of the family, minus the two youngest children. Then the lot crashed, yay...
I'm going to have to investigate a bit about what's going on here, but there could be Scheiler updates, and maybe even... Starblooms in the future. And you know something? I found a lot of pictures from last year, when I played the family at the Orchard. There's probably enough for an update there already. So no matter how uncooperative my game's gonna want to be, there's most likely something coming... suddenly.