macos mojave sims 3 stuck in finalising

[ILoveWellYou]

My sims 3 is stuck in finalising on the late-night expansion pack and the actual game but seasons has downloaded and says ready to play but then crashes straight away if i try to open it that way

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@ILoveWellYou  For the "finalizing" issue, please run the Origin reset tool for macOS:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/how-to-reset-origin-on-mac/

For the Late Night issues that you're definitely going to have, please apply two workarounds.  The first is to create an alias (icon) for LN in Applications\The Sims 3, alongside the alias for the base game.

https://bluebellflora.com/sims-3-packs-not-showing-as-installed/

The second is to copy a folder from Late Night into the folder for your newest pack by the date EA released it.  (That would be Seasons if you don't have any other packs.)  The video in this post shows where to find the folder and how to copy it over:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/CURRENT-ISSUE-Sims-3-Unknown-Error-in-El-Capitan-and-...

If you still get the unknown error, please list the full specs of your Mac, including the device ID of your graphics card.  Here's how to find that info:

https://bluebellflora.com/2018/07/24/sims-3-mac-players-i-need-your-help/#Information

And please also list the other packs, if any, you've installed, and any you'd like to install but haven't yet.

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@ILoveWellYou  For the "finalizing" issue, please run the Origin reset tool for macOS:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/how-to-reset-origin-on-mac/

For the Late Night issues that you're definitely going to have, please apply two workarounds.  The first is to create an alias (icon) for LN in Applications\The Sims 3, alongside the alias for the base game.

https://bluebellflora.com/sims-3-packs-not-showing-as-installed/

The second is to copy a folder from Late Night into the folder for your newest pack by the date EA released it.  (That would be Seasons if you don't have any other packs.)  The video in this post shows where to find the folder and how to copy it over:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/CURRENT-ISSUE-Sims-3-Unknown-Error-in-El-Capitan-and-...

If you still get the unknown error, please list the full specs of your Mac, including the device ID of your graphics card.  Here's how to find that info:

https://bluebellflora.com/2018/07/24/sims-3-mac-players-i-need-your-help/#Information

And please also list the other packs, if any, you've installed, and any you'd like to install but haven't yet.

[ILoveWellYou]

Thank you so much that's fixed everything, the screens too small and not great graphics on the actual game but I'll play around with settings