Sims 3 installer problems

[Kate727]

Anyone found anything yet?

[nixgeek]

I found this thread in the Apple Discussion boards. The last post claims that turning off Time Machine in Leopard might be a workaround.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....sageID=9611674

I checked the EA and Sims 3 websites and I could not find a patch to download, but I assume from the support sections on those sites that the patch is downloaded and applied from the launcher itself.

[Kate727]

I checked that but my time machine is already off and it's still not working

[vince_13]

Hi There,

just been reading around online about Sims installation problems (mine doesnt 'quit unexpectedly' but stalls instead)

anyway, found this page which someone has written about a previous version of Sims, might be worth a try? (i haven't had a chance to test it out but i am close to wits end!)

anyway, noticed no one had given an answer so thought this could help.

Sam

p.s. the link :-P http://www.giantmike.com/simsinstallfix.html

[Abraneb]

Finally! After rummaging around the Sims forums every day for ages, I have finally found something that works!

Kate, if you haven't already gotten a solution, check this out: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/38896.page

In case the link is being anal - you never know - here's what they say:


We are now aware of a Mac OSX problem reported on Mac forums where user's hard drives somehow become hidden on their computers. This makes it impossible to install The Sims 3 and possibly other application to that hard drive. A solution that has worked is make your hard drive visible again following these steps:

0. Take any CD's / USB drives / iPods / connected disks out of the machine.

1. open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/...)

2. make sure you are using an Administrator account and have the password

3. type the following:
ls -lOd /
(That's lowercase ell, lowercase ess, space, minus, lowercase ell, capital oh, lowercase dee, space, forward slash)

4. You should get something like this:
hostname:~ username$ ls -lOd /
drwxrwxr-t@ 32 root admin hidden 1156 Feb 8 20:35 /
(note it says "hidden" instead of "-")

5. To fix this, type:
sudo chflags nohidden /

6. Type in your password when prompted.

You should now be able to install to that hard drive. If you have partitions on your machine, you will need to unhide all the drives using:
sudo chflags nohidden /Volumes/*



Be sure to post if it works for you, too!