I have a lot of sim's I down loud that either don't loud or do and are black evan when I just copy and paste them in the down loud file . What could be the trouble??? HELP Pleae

If they don't show up in CAS it's because you have (maybe) too many sims files in your "SAVEDSIMS" folder. Try to move the ones you are not using to a backup folder. Dont use more than 40 sims at the SAVEDSIMS folder.

If they show black skinned is because of the skin used on the original downloaded sims. You can solve this problem by changing hairstyles or cloth styles in CAS, this way they will assume the color of you default skin tones.

Eva will show up soon with her magic fingers and write a more complete solution to your problems. Meanwhile try to do what I wrote above.

sergio....i didnt know about the saved sim thing a lot of my sims are not showing up in cas when i download them from my studio,,,could that be my problem too??

Helpful little Sergio strikes again! An yep follow his advice because it will help especially if you're getting charcoal sims

angie247 wrote:

sergio....i didnt know about the saved sim thing a lot of my sims are not showing up in cas when i download them from my studio,,,could that be my problem too??

Yes, ammount of sims saved on SavedSims folder is capped to dunno which number.

About the charcoal skin in CAS, please do as Sergio suggested, or change from young adult to elder and back to young adult and the problem is fixed. This is caused because "you" don't have the specific skin tone in your packages folder.

About the sim not showing up in CAS, please check if the sim you downloaded isn't under teen or elder or something like that.
Are the sims not showing up, when you install sims3pack-files sims through the launcher, or sim(package)-files installed through your savedsims folder, or both ??

Don't know about the limit of sims in your savedsim folder, I currently have 148 sims in that folder, without problems & they're all showing up in CAS.

the sims are not showing up in any age group and i have tried it both ways and its not just my sims either i just tried getting your new simmie Eva and she isnt showing up?? but i did get CeCe's smexy man...its been going on for ages and i have tried everything i can think of apart from uninstalling which is the very last option i have left

Hmmm... that's very weird !!
I'll go and have a look if I can some kind of answer / solution to this.
Very weird...

thankies Eva....hopefully its something simple that can be fixed as Ethan is still very lonely.......

OK, may have found an answer, besides the uninstall / reinstall.

Convert the sims3pack-file to package file(s), using Delphy's Multi Installer (DL here) and put these files in your packages folder. Check your packages folder if there are conflicts by using Delphy's Dashboard (DL here), if there are conflicts, solve them by using the Dashboard too.
Start up your game and check if this works.
Please let me know if this works or not, I can't test this cause I don't have this problem, OK ??
I hope this helps ;)

thanks Eva will check it out asap...

Yay for Eva it worked it worked....

Keiki and Ethan are now firmly placed in game they look so cute together ...

Yayy !! It worked !! Awesome !!
I would recommend only to do this, when the sims aren't showing in CAS, so not all the time.
It's meant more like a workaround in case the normal install of a sim doesn't work.

thankyou so much Eva...i now have a sim in my cas that i lost a long time ago and i couldnt get to download.... i cant thank you enough

You're welcome my dear ! I'm glad I was able to help !