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Have any other Mac users been having more and more trouble with each successive update patch that gets installed on The Sims 3? With the last one, 1.9, I was getting a disk authorization error and looked through the forums to find out I'd have to disconnect any external hard drives, including any iPods I might have attached. Okay. Fine. Did so and it worked. The next time it didn't work because I'd forgotten the hard drive and a charging station for a Livescribe Pulse pen. Now, it's not working. At all. Disk authorization error even after the three peripherals have been disconnected. Finally, it's deteriorated to the point where the best advice I could find from somebody was to disconnect ALL USB peripherals, including the keyboard and printer. Way hey, it's now working for her!
And to top it off, I'd gotten the special edition with the sports car download and never could get it to show up in the game. Later, I also downloaded some of the 10th anniversary freebies and those didn't appear correctly, either. It turns out I had to "unlock" them in the game by going into Buy mode and paying the listed simoleons. The proposed solution? Uninstall everything and reinstall the game under a different admin account, then start over again with a new character.
It was easier just to uninstall everything and throw the game DVD into a forgotten corner on my desk.
And to top it off, I'd gotten the special edition with the sports car download and never could get it to show up in the game. Later, I also downloaded some of the 10th anniversary freebies and those didn't appear correctly, either. It turns out I had to "unlock" them in the game by going into Buy mode and paying the listed simoleons. The proposed solution? Uninstall everything and reinstall the game under a different admin account, then start over again with a new character.
It was easier just to uninstall everything and throw the game DVD into a forgotten corner on my desk.