Sims2 [Solved] Missing Thumbnail for modular stairs

Ok, I hope this is the right place to ask. I have some modular stairs from Aviolinas Silent Hill set.
The stairs are fine to use in game (with railings and all) but they don't have a preview-thumbnail in the catalog (or next to the description-which shows up)
It's not a cache problem I checked that several times and they never had a thumbnail to begin with.
I looked into the cres files under the thumbnail section cause I read that deleting the line there can help with thumbnails showing up wrong (which worked for me in on other occasions). But there's nothing written in that section. (Items list is empty)
Originally there was no textfile for those stairs (for the scriptsfolder) so I copied an existing one and adjusted the values. Did that with other stairs before just mentioning it in case that could have something to do with it.

Mediafire link to my stairs file

I don't even know where to begin looking I have little to none modding skills. I'd be happy for any help you can provide.

P.S.: Other people added download links for her full set here and here I took that as validation that it's ok to reupload my file too.

Edit: Just in case someone knows Aviolinas stuff I'm not talking about the consolation stairs that have already been redone/repaired by exclectica/curiousb

I will look at this on Thursday as well. No promises though

did you have any luck finding out what's wrong with it?

Not yet, I found a reference to the problem in numenor's recolorable stairs on mts but he didn't say how he did it.

I thought I knew this, but clearly I have forgotten. lee can you link to where you found the reference by Numenor?

It's in the description here http://www.modthesims.info/d/53159/recol...feb07.html

These stairs don't have any recolors (aren't recolorable) so updating them to a new format wouldn't cause any problem for me. After reading that post I tried the "fix integrity" and check that button to make them university ready. Only change was that instead of showing an empty space in the catalog there was a text "no pic" in that place (like that hood effect "twikkii floor" has - if you know that) and more importantly I couldn't place the steps anymore (not even with moveobjects on) so I guess it's not that simple
But if you find any kind of solution you don't have to worry about recolors or any other dependencies and if it's just too complicated well I can live without the thumbnail just really hoped it was an easy fix.

I just wanted to let you know I finally figured it out (sorta) I realized this stair file was a compressed file so I made a clone of it to de-compress it and now finally the thumbnail is there!
   
Just in case anyone else should have a problem like this

Hi @Lucydique,

Cool! Congrats on finding a "cure" for your own problem! I always find it utterly gratifying to fix my own issues. And also thanks for sharing the experience. This may indeed be useful for other simmers with similar issues.

I'm curious, though. If you had opened the original file in SimPE, and looked at the resources tab for each item, some of them would've shown "Compressed: Yes". What I'm wondering is, if it would've helped to simply select "No" for each of those resources, and then save the file. If the file contained only three or four resources, for example, this should've been a much faster solution than cloning. Just adding this for consideration in case something like this ever comes up again.

(12-09-2020 07:51 AM)BoilingOil Wrote:  Cool! Congrats on finding a "cure" for your own problem! I always find it utterly gratifying to fix my own issues. And also thanks for sharing the experience. This may indeed be useful for other simmers with similar issues.

Yes I thought it was very cool to find the issue. I actually had a similiar problem with the preview of another file where the SHPE reference had a space at the end of the material definition and when i solved that one I decided to go back to the stairs and even though this was a different problem it was very cool to finally solve it too!

(12-09-2020 07:51 AM)BoilingOil Wrote:  I'm curious, though. If you had opened the original file in SimPE, and looked at the resources tab for each item, some of them would've shown "Compressed: Yes". What I'm wondering is, if it would've helped to simply select "No" for each of those resources, and then save the file. If the file contained only three or four resources, for example, this should've been a much faster solution than cloning. Just adding this for consideration in case something like this ever comes up again.

I was told there is no way to "de-compress" a file except for cloning it. Are you saying this would be a (safe) way to get rid of the compression? I still have the original file and I just checked it all 215 files in the package say "compressed:no" even though they are all listed in the "directory of compressed files". Maybe that file is just really weird