This is a bit of a diversion from my usual linux nørderi, but in my part-time job as home-head-of-IT I am also responsible for the onerous task of maintaining two installations of EA's beloved Sims 3 on Windows PC. Unfortunately daughter-no-1's PC recently had to be fully reinstalled. Fortunately I was able to extract a backup of her Sims data before the Windoze reinstall, but after reinstalling we had terrible problems reinstalling her online purchases. Essentially we could go through all the motions - ie download + install - but the worlds she'd bought just didn't show up in the game.
You can Google this issue and there are a lot of posts on the subject, which rather tends to confirm my existing prejudice that EA are a bunch of useless jerks who'll be the first against the Wall when the revolution comes. However what eventually worked for me was based on what I found at http://thecurtisparadisshow.ca/gaming/paradisebeach/ . However I was able to take a simpler approach as I actually had two .world files in our Installed Worlds folder. All I needed to do was copy them over to C:/....Program Files (x86)/EA/TheSims3/GameData/Shared/NonPackaged/Worlds and restart the program.
I should point out that I tried a lot of other tricks and tips from elsewhere on the net first, so it's always possible that it was some combination of these which actually worked in the end. Good luck, and if you have any problems, don't ask me.
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