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I have always cried every time someone told me they restarted their game because of this glitch.

NO. STOP. READ NOW!

When you have this glitch/bug there is no need for you to quit the game or end it through the task manager. All you have to do is

1. PRESS F5 on your keyboard - This will give you a menu.

2. Select with your keyboard arrow or Click Edit Town or Edit in Town whatever it’s called.

3. The UI bar will be back to normal!

4. Then you can choose to return to game or if you’re building/furnishing a house,click on the house again and edit :)

5. You won’t lose any progress.

Lately I’ve been on an organizing / re-categorizing kick with sims 3 and as I was contemplating what to do with all of my hospital clutter, I figured out a way to keep it in it’s own category without needing it in the overall catalog (de-cluttering the decor misc.)

What You Need:

Sims 3

A folder of specific ‘themed’ cc package files (i.e. Christmas, Hospital, Veterinary, etc)

S3PE

***Note: This tutorial is taking into consideration that you may have or want to sort your actual cc package files, and thus know what each file is.*** (Example Below in which I’ve located all my hospital files and renamed them so that I know:)

Step One:

Back up your CC before you do this, as anything can go wrong, this is the sims after all. Copy the files of the themed cc you chose and place them into your mods folder. It helps if you use S3PE to re-categorize them into a place you can easily find so you’re not hunting everything down. (I just stuffed all mine into Pets because it was the easiest I could identify the difference). Categorizing these right now is temporary, as ultimately after all these steps are done, you won’t even see these in your catalog, just the collection. 

**If you don’t know how to Re-categorize cc using S3PE  >>> CLICK HERE. **

Step Two:

Next, you create a collection file in game of all the items you chose in the first step, finding where you put them and clicking on them to add to a new collection. When you finish making the collection, close the game (You don’t have to save, it will still be in your folder under The Sims 3>Collections>User). You’ll find the correct collection you just created by checking the date modified, then you can rename it to whatever you like: (Example Below)

**If you don’t know how to create collections >>> CLICK HERE. **

Step Three:

After you’ve created your collection file for your themed cc, go into the folder you created of all the cc you just used and open each package file in S3PE. Find and click OBDJ, then Grid, and go through each Room & Function Category Flags and set it all to FALSE. This essentially “hides” the items from the catalog, BUT you will still be able to see these items in your collection file in game. 

And if you want to test that it works, head into game, click the collection you made and BAM! A new “category” for all those items you had laying around needlessly and scattered in misc decor or plants or wherever the heck they were. 

I hope this Tutorial is helpful to fellow OCD simmers. It may seem like a heck of a lot of work, but I assure you it will be worth it and also helps with game lag in Buy mode. 

(tagging @sims3tutorialhub )

Here you go @freckled-pixels Hopefully it helps explain better than just me. lol

Okay, so first go to map view. You know how to do that. ;) 

Click on the green icon of your active household (although you can do this for any of the house icons that you see). Then select NRaas. Then Master Controller. 

You’ll get this screen, which may look familiar. Select Sim near the bottom. 

From the Sim menu you’ll click Advanced at the top (really looking familiar now, right?). 

Which gets you here, and you’ll choose Edit in CAS, as you typically would. 

This menu will show all the sims who live in your household. Click each one that you’d like to edit in CAS. 

You’ll get that all to familiar loading screen before your first sims appears. Edit them to your heart’s content, Accept, and then that loading screen appears for a few seconds once more before it takes you to another sim you had previously selected. 

(i only recently put master controller into my game because my old laptop hated it, therefore i hated it, but my new laptop loves it but i still dont understnd it, so this is help)