I "lost" a sims family of two, when I bring up the Sim Brower it shows their faces with a blackness over them and under the Availible tab it says "no Charactor File" and when I mouse over it it says "Unlinked Sim, No Charactor on file" What does that mean?

When I play the game curantly they are in the sims bin, their name is there but there is no picture and when I place them on a lot, the cut scene plays but there is no Sims in it and then when it ends it goes staight to build/buy mode. There is no play mode even though when you go back to the neighborhood it says they are there with the plumbob. How do I get them back?

hey thank you so much for responding! that helped. i ended up just "cloning" the sims to get them back, IE created new sims that look really a like the old ones then i punched in the numbers from the old sims. they work just fine now. i however did completely lose another family that i was trying to link the orginal family to make them realtives. i dont have their numbers.. oh well. i can always just recreate them.

and this all happened because i messed with the Fami Edit, and didnt back up my nieghborhood because i didnt think you had to save right away.  well no more! i will now backup every chance i get and NEVER play with the Fami Edit lol