Can't give gift to any sim

[Whisper2z]

I had the issue while trying to present offerings to ghosts in the paranormal investigator career. After finding this thread I removed 3 fresh, non-spoiled, baked bread items in my inventor and the menu appeared. 

I'm concluding that any food in the sim's inventory will break the gift menu.

[SWB04152004]

I can't give gifts to anyone, with or without paintings in my inventory. Really frustrating.

I have zero mods on my game.

[puzzlezaddict]

@Redphun  Do you use mods or custom content, and if so, does this happen after removing the Mods folder?  You don't need to save your progress; this is just for testing.

[Redphun]

No mods, no cc. Game fully updated and repair action run. Still had the issue

[puzzlezaddict]

@Redphun  What else is in this sim's inventory?  Does it help to remove certain items, such as food or paintings?

Please also look for a lastexception in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4.  It would be best to delete any you have, then load the game and trigger the issue again.  You can paste the LE text directly into a reply window (please use a spoiler), or create a .rar file and attach it.

There are a couple of open bug reports for gifting being broken when certain items are in the sim's inventory, so if you confirm that removing a specific item fixes the issue, I'll merge with the appropriate bug report.  But there may be other affected items too, and the lastexception would be useful in any case.

[Rebekyy]

I have the same bug. What fixed it for me was removing a grand meal my sim cooked from her inventory.

[MapleSimmer]

I had five children in scouts, three of them could donate gifts to charity, which is required for the scout badge, two couldn't because the dialog picker wouldn't appear for them, neither on the computer or on the mailbox. I tried a few times with both sim children. Afterwards I looked and I had got multiple LEs from my many attempts.

I then decided to see if removing things from their inventory would help and I found that when I took the prepared food that was in their inventory out of their inventory, the dialog picker would appear. The food wasn't spoiled as it had been prepared by their mother who has the fresh chef trait.

This is since the update, playing with my mod folder out, all packs but Modern Menswear, game version PC 1.105.332.1020, game repair/clear cache done after each update and after adding the pack (localthumbcache deleted after each play session). 

Screenshot of one of the LE's I got:

Spoiler

Thanks and regards,

Jennifer

[Redphun]

@puzzlezaddict What is a spoiler?

[Redphun]

Found that a medium painting gifted by another sim was the culprit. Thank you. 

[plannerdatx]

I was also having an issue giving friendly gifts to other sims. After reading that it seems to be linked to food in the sim's inventory, I'm also wondering if that's the cause of something else I've seen in the game. My sim lives in Henford and has a rabbit stump on her property - she's friends with multiple rabbits. Usually when a sim gifts something to a rabbit, the rabbit gets a thumbs up, thumbs down, or heart thought bubble in response. However, with most of her gifts (even the ones they like or love) the rabbits are responding with the thought bubble of a stinky present and shaking their head in disgust. I'll have to try emptying out her inventory of food and see what happens.