

Go to your desktop and Right Click and choose "Paste" - This will copy your folder to your desktop.Go to you user profile path in " Documents\Electronic Arts\", right-click "The Sims 3" folder and select "Copy".Backup your user files - This is especially important for saved files and any custom content that you do not want to redownload or reinstall.Tip: Open up these pages in a new window ( CTRL+Click) so you can easily come back to this FAQ and continue the steps later, if need be. Please do not post on the forums if your content is not showing up - we will not have any additional suggestions and will only refer you back to this FAQ!.If you follow this FAQ to the letter and not only read it but do everything it says, your content should work.Don't just read it but DO THE STEPS as they are given!.This FAQ covers ALL KNOWN SOLUTIONS to custom content not showing up.Any other content-type (not specified above) does not show up.Mods - script mods in particular do not have interactions for that mod.Default Replacement skins are not applied to pre-existing Sims.Objects in Buy or Build mode don't show up.CAH (Create-A-Household, CAS renamed from patch 1.26/Pets EP onwards).CAS (Create-A-Sim, in patch 1.24/Town Life SP and prior).Sims' content don't show up, ie items in.Sims3Packs content not showing up in game, no files are in /DCCache and so is missing from Launcher's Installed Content tab.Sims3Packs content not showing up in game, but files are in /DCCache and Launcher is NOT showing as installed.Sims3Packs content not showing up in game, but files are in /DCCache and Launcher is showing as installed.All custom content is not showing up in your game.Some custom content is not showing up in your game.

Is custom content, downloaded content, or other stuff you've gotten off the internets and installed to Sims 3 not working for you? Are you having any of the following issues? For the equivalent Sims 2 article, click here.
