Eh my game crashes when I try to load a household... I guess my Lot borked while transfer... I did the following

-Had a Lot in Hood A where sims lived in

-Used the Shrub to keep all furniture and threw the family out

-Dropped the Lot into the Bin

-Went to Hood B and placed it there

-Moved a Family and then crashes while loading

Added the exception file... I wanna keep that Lot any way to fix that?

Lots with previous households (especially if you used the Shrub) can have various references and other stuff that potentially could cause issues with a new family. Normal game behavior is that all the furniture gets deleted when all the sims move out, which would remove most of the potential issues from the lot (owned items, trash left on the lot, leftover info about sims...)

It's recommended to clean up the lot before putting new sims on it, especially if you want to use it in a different hood.

You'll also want to properly clean the lot before putting it in the sim bin. It's not particularly difficult (you can use "method 2" + the cleaning globe)

The how-to:
https://thesims2.livejournal.com/6049797.html (quick-extraction, still needs cleaning)
https://2fingerswhiskey.livejournal.com/160934.html (same, with a bit more info)
https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=609188 (How to clean the lot BEFORE putting it in the bin - CH's "Lot Compressor" and the "Cleaner Globe" are linked at the bottom)

It's also a good idea to visit the lot after placing it down, just to make sure it still opens up fine - before putting a family in it. Previously used lots can in some cases be a bit more volatile than lots that haven't been used.

(It's technically not game-breaking - normally, anyway - to use previusly owned lots, but some of the references can potentially clutter up the hood with unused/unlinked data. Putting occupied lots in the bin causes a lot more unlinked data, since all the sims bring with them an unlinked copy of their relationships/memories/etc., which causes a lot of unnecessary clutter).

Oopsie thank you very much! I will remember that for next time... BUT OH MY I found out that I had a packaged version of that lot in my Lots folder all the time XD Ig I made that right after I finished building and never installed it back... I deleted the broken lot

Ehm I actually did that with two lots the other was an apartment but I was able to switch it into residential and then edit it unlike the other that crashed even with no one living there... Will that be fine as long as it doesnt crash? Or should or can I clean it now with lot cleaner? I already edited the lot alot....

If the lot doesn't crash, it likely will be alright.

A bit unsure with apartment lots and cleaning (and other special lots, too - dorms and such).

For regular residential lots - clean them before moving sims in (For lots rezoned TO residential, always make sure there's a mailbox and trashcan on the lot before moving sims in - another good reason to check the lot before moving anyone in).

You can clean lots that are sitting in the lot bin.

Apartment lot was probably okay because when sims move out they revert to the way they were originally.

You probably shouldn't have edited the lot Alot though. Alots don't like being edited. XD

I don't believe sim references in lots actually cause problems, and have never heard of this occurring. I think this is part of the old superstitions about moving occupied lots between hoods and stub files. I can't think of any reason why unused resources in the lot that happen to reference an ID of some sim that doesn't exist would cause a problem.

If the lot crashes when you load it, just bulldoze and it place it again from the lot bin. That just happens to lots periodically, even lots that have never had other sims living on them.