Hi!

Recently when I tried to start my TS2, I got a message that University had been uninstalled, and if I continued all my uni sims would be dumped into the main neighborhood. After that was a similar message about NL, then OFB, etc etc through all of them. I, needless to say, had not uninstalled anything. If I go into a neighborhood - a newly created one, all the ones I usually play were copied to somewhere else the very first time I saw that message - all the icons for various EPs are grayed out. The sims still have some functions; for NL, for example,they still have chemistry and TOs,but cannot go on dates - so it's not that I only have the basegame.

To the best of my knowledge, nothing significant changed between the last time I successfully played the game, and the spontaneous uninstallation.

I would simply reinstall them, except since my latest move I'm not sure I can find all my old disks. (I've found some.) Any chance of "rescuing" the installations that should already be on my computer?

let's see; you got some update or you cleaned registry (CC cleaner or such?). If the files are still in place but the game claims they are not installed, you probably lost proper registry keys. Bad news: it's not impossible to recreate them but it's really annoying process. Simple reinstallation will be less frustrating I suppouse.

New virus protection? Sometimes they quarantine things.

No new virus protection, no cleaned registry. I don't think there was any update, but I can't swear to it since some time passed between the last successful and the unsuccessful play session.

And like I said,I can't find all my old disks, so reinstalling would still leave me short several expansion packs...