Thank heavens for this thread! My remote went missing and I looked and looked for it. Now, I'm pretty good at hidden object games, so this was getting frustrating! I remembered this thread and took a look and sure enough, my remote was way over on the left side under the tool tray!

I didn't have much trouble getting it out. I knew it was in a straight line from the corner of the workshop, so I grabbed the youngest, dragged him over to the workshop and straight over the tool tray. Believe it or not, you CAN drop someone under the tool tray!

Actually, that might be a good item to be able to purchase in the next game! If you lost it, you can buy a new one! Maybe an upgraded one that will turn on lights, heat, air conditioning, tv, dvd player...

I LOVE having the tv. If the kids are drawing on the wall or banging dishes, I don't use the glove...I pick them up and put them in front of the tv and give them a pat on the head. There's usually one there when I need someone to pick up a collectable! Different story with the adults though! After 55 they can watch, but not before!!

I use one of the modified interfaces that makes the tool tray transparent. I'm afraid I can't remember which one now, but it's in the Virtual Families Mods forum. It was a fairly early mod, so you may have to set a search to look back several months. Although I haven't - so far - lost the remote, I have spotted a couple of weeds I probably wouldn't have noticed with an opaque tool tray.

Arnie, there were only two in the beginning; mine and a black one made by Sally MG.

YOU CAN FIND MY BLUE TRANSPARENT TOOLBAR AND MENU HERE:
BlueTransparent Toolbar And Menu

MY BLUE TRANSPARENT TOOLBAR AND MENU WITH A FAM. TREE MOD ADDED:
Blue Transparent Menu and Toolbar With Family Tree

YOU'LL FIND SALLY MG'S HERE:
Dark Interface Mod

Hi Lewanda, sorry for not giving you credit for your mod! I've only got the transparent toolbar. However, the page you link to seems to have the download link edited out.

Thank you for posting this! I started a post the other day about being crazy looking for my remote. I dragged a child under the tool tray by the shed and after a few tries, she came out with the remote!!

I really, really wish they would create a patch for this. My remote has been stuck out of reach for months now. I've tried hundreds of times to have various peeps pick it up. They just can't do it. Employing the maid service didn't retrieve it either.

Not being able to use the television takes some of the enjoyment away from playing for me. At this stage there isn't much left to do while I wait for a few random things to happen (final bug to show up, winning lottery ticket, etc.). In the past I enjoyed purchasing a movie and seeing the whole family come running to watch it together. Now all I can do is drag them away when they stand "confused" by the coffee table when they want to watch TV.

How very frustrating!

Where is it, coleslaw? Maybe we can help.

Thanks for your help, *Moonlyght*.

My remote is stuck here:



I hope Tuna Puzzler doesn't mind that I borrowed her image to illustrate my problem.

I have the clear tray so it's no problem for me to see the remote. I can drop peeps on it in such a way that they should be able to pick it up. They don't, though, so the frustration continues.

Coleslaw, I had this same problem. I made a backup copy of my remote.png file and renamed the outsideChair.png to remote.png. The remote now looked like a chair and was BIG, I had no trouble picking it up and carrying it back to the coffee table. Once there, I renamed the outsideChair.png back to remote.png to look normal again.
Good luck,
Cheron

Thanks so much for your help, Cheron. I did as you suggested. I made a backup copy of my remote.png file then renamed the outsideChair.png file to remote.png. Now the chair is where the stuck remote was. I've dropped peeps on the chair a few dozen times now. Not only will they not pick it up, they act like they don't even "see" it.

Am I doing something wrong?