I know the title might be a bit confusing, but anyways... I was checking SimPE when I noticed it said two of my toddlers had no character files. I loaded up their families, and they were both invisible, didn't show up in the pie menu, couldn't interact with anything, and would constantly spit out "Hit break point primitive" errors if boolprop was on. It sure looked like their character files were deleted, but when I checked their character files in SimPE (since I know I would have to restore a bunch of stuff in there to fix them) it didn't look like a stub file at all- everything in the character file seemed to be there and in working order. Now I'm confused- obviously SOMETHING'S going wrong- but I can't tell what. Like I said earlier, I know there's a way to fix missing character files, so instead of simply adding new files to the stub file, do I just replace stuff, or what? I am... so confused and stressed right now.

Edit- To clarify, out of the files that the sims wiki article for restoring a sim without a character file says need to be replaced, the broken toddlers still have catalog description, directory of compressed files, jpgtgapng image, object data, object functions, and version information. The only one they're missing is package, and I can't find that for sims who DO actually function properly.

Do you have an anti virus set to look at Sims 2 files or some syncing program like OneDrive? Both have been known to mess with sims character files, in particular after growing up to toddlers or kids, saving the game and going back into game and finding them messed up.

I disabled OneDrive, and I don't think I have an anti-virus messing with the files, especially since this happened real time weeks after they were born, and several babies born after them are completely intact. And anyways, I have to admit, I care less about what caused this, and more about fixing the damage.

Only that if something is causing it, it can happen again.

How to fix I really don't know. I would be more inclined to kill them off if they can be.

Do they have Age Data? That's what SimPE looks for, and what it uses to decide if the sim has character data.

Bingo! Yeah, both of them have their age data missing- so just copy their age data from a backup, give it back to them, and they should be all set?

You could try that. There might be other things missing if the Age Data was missing, though.

I seem to have been (relatively) lucky- both broken toddlers had 95 sub-files in their character files in the backup I have... and 94 sub-files right now. So it appears to be just the age data that went missing in both cases. And with the age data restored, SimPE lists them as being okay- now all I have to do is go in-game and test!

Tested it out in game- they've been fixed! Thanks kestrellyn for pointing me to the right problem!

Wow good call and find! I would have thought more would have been missing than just age data. Make sure to make a back up.