Huge glitch on the sims 2?

Question

ok on the sims 2 one of my babys had a birthday and grew into a toddler but the game said its still a baby and adults can only play,hold,and cuddle the baby and whenever they try to pick it up they get reset or an error notice comes up and asks if i want to delete or reset the person that is trying to pick it up any tips?

Additional Details

ive tried that several times and it still wont work

ive been able to play with them and when the social worker arrived my two other children were healthy and had A's and instead of taking the toddler she tried to take my two other children i tried to let the toddler die but when she did no grim reaper came her skin was transparent and her icon was gray on the family thing but she was still there and there was little Z's coming from her but i think she was dead because none of the adults tried to pick her up like they did when she was dying

Answer 1

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It sounds like you were playing with the boolprop testing cheats enabled while your Sim was going through age transition. (if the cheats weren't on, you wouldn't have got the error notice). This is likely to have corrupted your game.
Playing with the boolprop testing cheats on for any reason is a bad idea. If you absolutely must use them, turn them off immediately afterwards. Never leave them on for extended periods, and never save with them on.
Turn the cheat off by entering boolprop testingcheatsenabled false in the cheat box.

I don't think you will be able to play with that family again. What has happened is that the game now has a skeleton conflict. It will use the skeleton for toddlers but the animations and behaviors for a baby. The toddler animations which the game tries to run on the baby skeleton will fail, causing the action that was being performed with the toddler to fail also. This makes it impossible for your Sims to pick the toddler up and tend to their needs as you have discovered. If the social worker shows up, she won't be able to take the toddler. However, the save and exit options, which are locked when the social worker arrives, are not re-enabled, because the social worker's routine failed without cleaning up after itself. This renders the lot unplayable, as the game goes into an Infinite loop.

Send the family to the family bin now before the social worker arrives, because you won't be able to after that and will not be able to shut the game down unless you hit ctrl-alt-delete. You will not be able to play with the family again, but at least you won't have to reinstall your game.

Answer 2

just reset the person

Answer 3

Well, first of all, don't choose delete. You should always choose reset, but that won't undo the problem. I've had this happen once, only it was a teen that was still being treated as a child. Anyway, the only thing I thought I could do, was set the sim to the next life stage, in your case, teen. To do that, type ctrl+shift+c and then 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled true' (without the quotation marks). Now, shift-click the sim and choose 'set to birthday'. Now you can click the sim and choose 'Grow up'. The sim will become a teen and the game will treat it as one.

Turn boolprop off again, by typing trl+shift+c and then 'boolprop testingcheatsenabled false' (without the quotation marks)

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Answer 4

I have used the delete option successfully. When a sim was so glitched that they couldn't recover, I used the cheats to force an error. Then I took a deep breath and selected the delete option.

The sim disappeared and eventually came back to the lot on their own, fresh and new. Problem solved.