Recolors made and put in downloads folder, not showing up in-game

[DSims2Frantic]

Alright, I made several recolors for my vase I started working on again. The problem is, they won't show up in-game.

Originally, I made two colors. The base color, and the transparent recolor, both of which showed up. Well now I got rid the the transparent one, and replaced it with those others. Well in the game the transparent picture is still there but when you click on it, it's actually the orange recolor. And only those two pictures show up to choose from instead of all the recolors. Why? And how do I fix it?

[Numenor]

When you say you "got rid of the transparent one and replaced it with those others", you mean you deleted the package containing the transparent? Or you edited the transparent recolour replacing the texture?
The first thing you should try is to refresh the thumbnails ( = delete all the files in Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Thumbnails), so to see in catalog the actual colours contained in the packages.
and then you should double check that you don't have in the Downloads an old version of the transparent package that you've forgotten to delete.

[DSims2Frantic]

I edited the transparent one.

OK thanks, I will refresh the thumbnails. Hopefully that'l work.

[Numenor]

You should always create new recolour packages: it avoids problem :)

[DSims2Frantic]

Yeah, I know that (now). Explains why the same thing happened to my rugs.

[DSims2Frantic]

Well it fixed my rugs problem (now successfully uploaded), but not the vase problem. I completely removed the entire package from my downloads folder (mesh and all recolors), and reinstalled, and that didn't fix it either. :/