w2k19 caws unusable on external harddrive

If you are getting stuck at the Launcher, you may have the 'Go Social' (post-Showtime) version of the Base Game. You may need to reinstall Origin to do this. If you are getting stuck at the Origin login, try changing your Origin preferences. Any more ideas? Should I try reinstalling AGAIN? I would be HUGELY grateful for any solution or work around for this! And so would a bunch of other people who are in the same boat. Are there any other work arounds? At the very least, is there a way to take modifications done in game and somehow export them to a world file for CAW? I really want to be able to build a world working between Edit In Game and CAW. I am totally at a loss as to how to fix this. I drag my test.world file to the batch file, drop it, and the launcher pops up and stays there. The batch file by zaide_chris at MTS seems like just the kind of answer I need, but it just does the same thing. The default.ini file of CAW and TS3 are both CompatVersion = 22, WorldBuilderCompatibilityVersion = 19, with the game versions 1.37 and 1.17 respectively. so mods, CC, store content, caches, these aren't the issues. I just did a clean reinstall from base game up through IP, with a fresh install of the newly updated CAW, fresh reinstall of Origin, thoroughly cleaning out my registry before reinstalling and working with a fresh Documents/EA/TheSims3 folder. This problem seems like it is often due to a version mismatch, and maybe that is true for some, but I have all EPs. Over at MTS there are several others posting the same issue. I have searched these threads and MTS for solutions and followed all that seemed reasonable, to no avail. I test it out with the simplest world possible and still nothing happens. I can leave it for hours and hours and nothing happens. It is definitely not a matter of waiting around. When I click Edit in Game, it swiftly opens up the Launcher, and it stays there. I do all the necessary steps that I know to correctly export a world, doing routing etc. I can export worlds and load them, but this does not allow me to build a world with lots and sims added. This is a longstanding issue for me, not being able to open Edit In Game.

Hey awesome CAW creators, I need some help!

W2k19 caws unusable on external harddrive