Stuck on vacation

[Corvellia]

So my sims family went on vacation to France and now they can't return home. It said my vacation time was up and they never returned and when I manually tried to send them home the option is grayed out and all it says is "Cannot move because edit town is unavailable" Can anyone help? I also cannot save so time is of the essence...

[cruinne]

Do you have a save file from before going on vacation? For most people, that is the only thing that works.

However, I did see someone say once that it was an inventory problem -- that one Sim had something in their inventory that prevented them leaving town (I think it was another family member's remains). In this case, deleting the problem inventory item allowed the Sim to return home via their cellphone.

Other things I can suggest:

• Use the cheat console (control + shift + c)and type in: resetsim <sim name>. That is, if my Sim were named Jo Schmoe, I would type in: resetsim Jo Schmoe
  
  This might give it enough of a jolt to let the Sim leave using the phone.
  
  
• Remove mods/custom content then load the vacation save and see if you can send your Sim home. If that works, you know there's something wrong with the custom content that's causing the issue.
  
  
• Restore an earlier save from one of the .sims3.backup files in your save directory and hope it's early enough.