Trendi Band-aid & Info on Error Code 532  

Background

As I said in the official AHQ thread on the issue, error code 532/the game refusing to save is caused, at least in part, by the Trendi system not being built to support CC. Because of this, any CC tagged with the new Fashion Rarity will cause exceptions and prevent the game from being able to save.

Note that the "groundhog day" bug is very likely caused by more than one underlying issue. This band-aid may help with it, but it may not fix the problem for all users as there may be something else going on that needs to be addressed.

As this issue has shown, it is important that when encountering issues like this, especially ones that break the game, you take out EVERYTHING: mods AND CC included, and test to see if the problem persists without them.

Version & Mod Info

Version 1.0.0

Compatible with game version 1.90

Game requirements: High School Years

Installation

Unlike most of my "should fix" mods, this one comes with both a package and a script file. Because of this, it is strongly recommended you create a folder for the mod. The mod also creates a text file listing the IDs of CC to find, and the output file will go into the same folder as the mod, meaning having the mod in its own folder will make finding this file easier.

Remember that script mods cannot be placed deeper than one subfolder.

Download the ZIP file and extract the contents to its own folder within your /Mods folder. Within you will find 3 files:

• the package file
• the script file
• a read_me text file which is the contents of this Patreon post in text form

You can delete the text file if you so desire but be sure to keep the package and the script file. Both are required for the mod to function properly.

How It Works

This mod functions as a band-aid, not a proper fix. It will fall on EA to decide if they want to allow CC to be supported by Trendi.

This mod works by filtering out any of the CAS parts that are too big (which is what caused the error: the CAS part IDs being to big to be written to the save file) every time Trendi refreshes its inventory, and writes their instance IDs to a file so you can find and remove/fix them. It also creates a notification that includes some info on what happened and what you can do and provides a link to the tutorial on how to find the package files and to our support server if you need more help.

The name of the text file the mod creates is invalid_CAS_part_IDs.txt. Note that if you are on Windows and have file extensions disabled, the .txt will not be in its name and it will appear as a file with a notebook page icon (something like this: 📄).

How to Find and Fix CC

Here is a tutorial, originally written by Ravasheen, on how to use Sims 4 Studio's resource.find console command to find the package files that contain CAS part IDs listed by the mod.

Once you have isolated the CC file(s) in question, you have two options: either deleting the CC or editing it to remove the tags. If you are not well-versed in S4S, I suggest removing the CC as it can be a little overwhelming to find everything.

For a quick and dirty tl;dr on how to edit the tags of a CC item:

1. Open the CC package file with S4S

2. Go to the Warehouse tab

3. Find and locate the CAS part tuning you want to edit

4. In the Data tab, scroll down to the section that says Tags. Click on the edit button and a window should pop up.

5. Scroll down the list until you see one of the Fashion Rarity tags. Click on Remove and then Save.

6. Save the package (Ctrl+S on Windows). Repeat these steps for every CAS part in the package (each individual swatch needs to be fixed).

The tags you need to remove from CC:

• Fashion_Rarity_Exclusive_Common
• Fashion_Rarity_Exclusive
• Fashion_Rarity_Exclusive_Depop
• Fashion_Rarity_Rare
• Fashion_Rarity_VeryRare

Note for Translators

This mod includes a package file principally so that the notification can be translated into other languages. If you would like to provide a translation, feel free to do so!

Normally, I like include the translation files into the mod itself, but because of the widespread nature of this error and its gravity, as well as for practicality reasons, you can simply provide override translations for the mod. Feel free however to send me a link to the translations (either here in the comments or on our server) and I'll include them/link to the translations in the post!

Current Translations

• Italian by Isy, included
• French by MassimoSims (Ciro), included
• Spanish by me, included
• German by NeedCoffee4That, included