Is your sim making a dancing glass gnome one minute, and then just standing in front of the glass blowing station awkwardly the next? What about the giant white cube that comes out of nowhere and englufs your sims's head? Or maybe you've had him/her skritching away at the Fit as a Fiddle for hours, but it still sounds like a cat being murdered, and all the threads about this problem say the skill doesn't improve until you stop playing, but yours just isn't improving period. Bottom line, your store content is malfunctioning.
Undoubtedly, you've been sent to Nona's ccmerged recovery page, you can probably recite the URL backwards, but the fact that everyone around you insists your problem is your out of date DCCacheBackup (or whatever it's called) doesn't seem to change the fact that "updating" ccmerged.package is not solving the problem. And no, uninstalling your mods probably isn't going to help either.
What most forums don't tell you up front and it took me forever to wade through the trolls to find is
YOUR CCMERGED.PACKAGE SHOULD BE IN BOTH YOUR CACHE BACKUP AND YOUR MODS>OVERRIDES FOLDER
Yes, this solved the problem for me. The icons for the artisan and violin skill aren't there, but when I go into master controller, under Advanced>Skill Level, I can adjust it just like any other now. And I highly suspect for the same reason, my sim can now smelt metals without a hitch. I don't know if this will fix the giant cube problem since I downloaded a different fix beforehand that got rid of the missing object but still had the interaction cancelling, but copying your ccmerged into your mods folder I think will probably fix that too. I always wondered how putting something in your backup folder would fix the actual gameplay; well there's your answer: maybe it does a little, but when in doubt, route through overrides.
Hoped this made this key bit of information more readily available. Happy Simming!
