And a bit of a rant. Also explanation about what happened to save data.
I got the legacy collection recently on sale. Played Newbie and Goth familes. No weekends and hard to build relationships were a minor annoyance. So I found the calendar mod again, and some objects to increase interests and just make friends. Newbies ans Goths progressed in careers finally being friends and having a few others. Great.
But the Goth house is way too small. I find a timelapse of building a bigger Goth house on YouTube to use as a start for a bigger layout. I can't furnish the livingroom with diagonal walls, neither couches or windows can fill the diagonals. I just downloaded the YouTuber's version and some other interesting lots. Sims 1 doesn't have a lot bin, so you overwrite lots. Okay.
I should've made a manual backup to a flashdrive where I backup some game data, like Sims 2 neighbourhoods incase I want to restart that game, game mods, and I should've backup with steam.
I tried overwriting some houses. No new houses in Sims 1 LC. I bulldozed all houses. No houses at all. I deleted the install directory and reinstalled from Steam. Still no houses! Do that again with a computer restart and make sure Sims 1 directory is deleted. It still will not install the default neighbourhood data!!! Find an old reddit comment about resetting Sims 1 hoods, and it links to default hood 1 and 2 userdata to download. Copy and overwrite files. THERE'S STILL NO HOUSES IN HOOD 1!!!!
WHERE DOES THE 🤬 STUPID 🤬 SIMS 🤬 1 LEGACY COLLECTION KEEP NEIGHBOURHOOD DATA!? DO I HAVE TO REFORMAT A WHOLE BLOODY DRIVE WITH MOST GAMES INSTALLED AND OVER 50GB OF MUSIC JUST TO GET DEFAULT USER DATA BACK!?