@ IndianQueen, The Dashboard tool works great for corrupt & duplicate CC: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=387006
You can get it to run using X11+mono (+ terminal).

Hi ella, just wondering has any more progress been made with getting S3OC to run in Mountain Lion?

Thank you! I really appreciate your help. As I was going through the steps I got this message in my terminal:

unknownd49a20dd2174:~ rythmn2beat$ x11+mono(+terminal) /Users/rythmn2beat/Desktop/Sims3Dashboard.exe
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `+terminal'
unknownd49a20dd2174:~ rythmn2beat$

What did I do wrong?

Hmm, I'm a bit confused by that error message (I'm not very technical myself) but this is what you do to get a program to run in terminal:

1. Open terminal, type "mono" [then space once]
2. Open a new finder window find where the .exe is located and literally drag n' drop it into terminal, and this will automatically generate a file path.
3. press return/enter.
4. the program should open.

Yikes! It didn't work. I'm not sure what step I'm missing. I'm going to reinstall everything I downloaded from Delphy. Is there something else I am suppose to download that wasn't mentioned on Delphy's page besides the .Net 2.0 and Custard? I really appreciate your help Ingridtk

No probs, All the info on getting programs to run in mono is described under #5 "Cross-Platform solutions" on the front page.

There is also this handy blog post which describes step-by-step how to get dashboard running on a mac (and other stuff):
http://arisily.livejournal.com/17175.html

Thanks! I have never been so frustrated in my life!

Is there a new Resource.cfg file online for Sims 3 CC? My MAC crashed as I was playing Sims and MAC informed me that the Resource file I have is corrupted. How is that?


Process: cider [1237]
Path: /Applications/The Sims 3.localized/The Sims3.app/Contents/Resources/AddOns/The Sims 3 University Life.app/Contents/MacOS/cider
Identifier: com.transgaming.thesims3ep09
Version: 1.0. (1.0)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]

Date/Time: 2013-03-31 16:43:42.398 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 280594 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 143995 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: E2718C76-2F7B-4AB5-B926-078EE8F8B9A0

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGILL)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

You don't need any tools to do this. The manual way works fine, and in most cases would have been faster and easier to do than trying to figure out Tools out of your expertise/comfort level. Game Help:TS3 Finding Problem Custom Content^wiki

Nope. Just got my system back up when I got my GPU returned yesterday. And still battling HDD space issues - well, the fact that I've run out, mainly.
The issue is, it is not going to be easy to port it over as the code is not natively written to support cross-platform compatibility, as Peter never aimed for it to be such. It was just mainly to test out the s3pi library, which then grew.

No new Resource.cfg version; the one in the Install Package Wiki page still applies. You first need to determine if the crash is due to the User folder contents or the game folder contents by doing the holy grail FAQs of all FAQs when it comes to Sims - Game Help:Sims 3 Game Problem^wiki - ie remove stuff from or the Sims 3 User folder itself. That would help determine if the crash is due to the User folder contents or the game folder contents, and/or patch 1.50.

And the bold parts that I quoted - how exactly did the MAC accomplish that? What is the error message, and in what context did the system inform you of this? ie what were you doing at the time? Loading the game (initial screen with green loading bar), loading a Save game/loading a chosen world, already playing, in Live mode, in CAS, in Buy/Build mode, in Edit Town, etc etc?

As you can see, troubleshooting for your issue is outside the scope of using Tools listed here, so may I suggest you create your own Help thread?

Hey! Thank you for the help. My game crashes because of my CC, but I don't know which files are corrupted. I have over 100 items in my Mods and Download folders. When MAC shuts my game down a report on the crash appears and states, "EA/ The Sims 3/ MODS/ Resource." I thought it was my resource file that was outdated.

Ok i am a little late to the party but hopefully i can get pointed in the right direction. I was planning on using Mono with my per-installed X11. yea not really working for me. i did the whole type mono into terminal and then drag and drop dashboard, and i first got file not found of not applicable... something like that. i was reading on the thread that you might have to tell mono to use X11? no clue on how to go about that.
Thank in advance

Can you show an image of what the error actually says? Is the Dashboard.exe already extracted?

Also, what version of Mono?

hi.. after reading this forum i still need help. sorry if the answer i am looking for is already in the posts but im not familiar with the tech savy lingo. i need help using S3PE on mono.

CURRENT VERSION OF MONO: 2.10.11
VERSION OF S3PE: s3pe_10-1031-1514 (i used the .7z one & not the easy install)
The mac i have is running on 10.8.4 OSX
I have xquartz 2.7.4

when i open terminal -> type mono -> drag the .exe to mono i get this error (see attachment)

The s3pe.exe and associated files are already extracted? May I suggest a simpler folder name, one that has no spaces? So we can determine if the long name, unrecognized characters, and path are NOT contributing factors...

Also, what made you choose that S3PE version? I linked the recommended version in the first post.

yes i extracted it. i downloaded that version because i was not sure if i should download the last non .net 4 version or an older one...
i changed the folder name to MTS & downloaded S3PE version on the first post, extracted it & blah here is the new error

*EDIT: to make sure it wasnt the path i also moved the MTS folder out of my downloads onto my desktop & still no luck.

Last login: Mon Jul 1 10:56:48 on ttys000
Kianas-MacBook-Pro:~ kianabrown$ mono /Users/kianabrown/Downloads/MTS/s3pe.exe
Missing method .ctor in assembly /Users/kianabrown/Downloads/MTS/s3pi.CustomForms.dll, type System.ArgumentLengthException

Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for AutoUpdate.Checker ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Custom, Version=1112.3.1951.35756, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'System.Custom, Version=1112.3.1951.35756, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBoxInternal:.ctor (string,string,System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBoxIcon,System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<string>,int,int)
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (IWin32Window owner, System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, IList`1 buttons, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, IList`1 buttons, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxButtons buttons, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at AutoUpdate.Checker..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at S3PIDemoFE.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for AutoUpdate.Checker ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Custom, Version=1112.3.1951.35756, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies.
File name: 'System.Custom, Version=1112.3.1951.35756, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBoxInternal:.ctor (string,string,System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBoxIcon,System.Collections.Generic.IList`1<string>,int,int)
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (IWin32Window owner, System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, IList`1 buttons, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, IList`1 buttons, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Windows.Forms.CopyableMessageBox.Show (System.String message, System.String caption, CopyableMessageBoxButtons buttons, CopyableMessageBoxIcon icon, Int32 defBtn, Int32 cncBtn) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at AutoUpdate.Checker..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at S3PIDemoFE.Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
Kianas-MacBook-Pro:~ kianabrown$

Can you take a screenshot of the s3pe /Users/kianabrown/Downloads/MTS/ folder showing all the contents?

here you go

What do you use as an un-Archiver tool?
Apart from that, I'm all out of ideas, sorry.

Your images show the same file sizes and timestamp, so I don't (eta) know what else to check for.

Oh, are you able to run Dashboard?

i use StuffIt Expander. I can run dashboard & custard. but at least we gave it a try. thank you for your help! stay awesome.

I took another look at the error messages. They are different, yes? Which I noticed on the first perusal, but I forgot to mention it. (I have to stop multitasking with too many screens!)

The second one has "AutoUpdate.Checker". I forgot to mention that on OSX, the AutoUpdate prompt has to be disabled. Answer No on that first image up there. I intended to bring that up, that is why I had the screenshot (duh, ella! ). But I'm unsure if after we do away with that cause, if you might then get the first error back. But doesn't hurt to try...good luck!

im assuming you got the update message seen in the 2nd screen shot after you successfully opened S3PE with mono? D: i dont think i would be able to even get to that step. ill just use a friends pc.

I'm trying to get going and I need some help, if you guys are up for it.

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8
I've got CTU and SimGeomEditor running successfully in both mono 2.6.4 and wine 1.6-5rc with 2.0 NET framework installed, so I'm good there.

But S3OC (version 10-1031-1514) won't work with wine; it greets me with "s3oc has encountered a problem and needs to close." And as far as opening it with mono, I can't find Inge's instructions to edit my GameFolders.xml file, but otherwise it seems to *want* to run in mono. For whatever reason, I'd love to get it running in wine, but if anyone can help me get it running at all I'll be happy and grateful.

Here's the entire report wine gives me when it bombs out on s3oc, but it makes zero sense to me:


Hope you all are well and enjoying the summer (or winter if you're south of the equator)!

In case you're still looking for help on this, @fractal_bat...

Are ALL the files extracted into the same folder?

Why that version, though? Tried other versions; have you tried the version I stated in the first post? Same result?

I guess I'm confused, why use both Mono and Wine? Isn't one sufficient? They are both emulators of sorts...