i CANNOT seem to find answers anywhere for either of these programs, and it is slowly driving me crazy!!

so i made a thread a few days ago talking about SEOM, and i was given recommendations for alternate programs! but the problem is that these programs seem to keep malfunctioning and throwing errors at me

SimOrganizer has this issue where when i click on one of my object files, it just flat out doesn't recognize it, for some reason?? it says that no objects are found in the file in question, and any files it DOES find don't have ANY categorization or properties to them! pictures:


then, SimCategorizer just does This whenever i try and use it, no matter which objects im looking at


are my items just in the wrong folders?? is it the items themselves??? is it my computer??? are the programs just old and broken?? im slowly losing my mind

I have problems with SimCategorizer in that it won't save without crashing, but I think I only had loading issues if I didn't run it as administrator (Windows 10). I don't KNOW if that's your issue, though, but you could see if it changes anything, if you aren't running as admin.

By the way, where did you install your game? (hoping it's not 'that' case)

**Nevermind, SimCategorizer doesn't work for me, too(it's not about installation folder or running as administrator).

no yeah, i think ive tried that before but just double-checked and still doesnt fix the issue i'm on windows 10 as well !

it's at least good to know those can be ruled out, but then i have to wonder if it's somehow the cc's fault? but the items show up just fine in-game, and in the proper categories... so i'm at a loss

...It turns out my crashing issue was about not running it in compatibility mode. D'oh! Posting that in case that's helpful to anyone. (Windows defaulted to compatibility with XP Service Pack 2 though I think it's likely SP3 would also work since I had SP3 back when my Sims install was on an XP computer.)

(I couldn't figure out a further reason a file wouldn't load in the program, though--I saw a similar error on some files it could see... but that's because they're not iffs that actually work with the game (they're beta objects (as in objects FROM the beta, not ports for the final game) I threw into a folder in Downloads just so a DIFFERENT program could see them for something specific). I don't know if that suggests "it's the objects' fault" because while for these that's almost definitely the reason SimCat can't work with them... the actual game can't see them either.)