Installed content not in-game! SOLUTION FOUND!!!

[SomeGuy]

I got the free Riverview town, so i download the item its in the installed section of the Launcher but it doesn't show up in-game.
Please Help?

[Veld']

When you say it doesn't show up in game i assume you mean it's not in the drop down list where you choose your starting Neighborhood? Are you making sure you run the launcher with administrator privileges when you add new content? (Right click your shortcut to Sims 3 and select Run as Administrator).

[thx1111]

I'm having the same problem with all my store content. It shows up under installed, but when you try to install it, basically says "you don't have the most current version" (this is hard to find as it goes by quickly on the screen and you have to know where it is, you won't see it very easily). I have a feeling this is related to the new 70's stuff pack or update 1.48, but I'm not 100% on that.

[SomeGuy]

Here is the Solution:
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Sims-3-store-content-will-not-install/td-p/46724

[Motoki]

If you're getting the "you don't have the most current version" when trying to install store stuff via the launcher you could also just delete the C:\Users\<your windows user name>\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\ContentPatch folder first. This will force the game to redownload all the launcher updates the next time you run it and should get it all patched up to the current version.

Also keep in mind what MasterW3 said in the other thread that to install content with the Steam version of the game you must have run the launcher via launching the game from Steam. If the launcher opened outside of Steam either for a browser link or clicking on a sims3pack file or something like that it will not install the content. At least for me it won't, so make sure you play the game from Steam and have the launcher open that way before trying to install anything.

If none of that works then the more drastic solution is to follow Man of Wrath's advice from that EA link and just move the entire C:\Users\<your windows user name>\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 folder somewhere else (don't delete it though! It has your saves, so just move or rename it). Then see if you can install content from a fresh start that way. If you can then something got corrupted in your old directory and you can just restore the saves and start reinstalling the store content again.