An awesome save...

I don't delete unfinished saves that haven't reached a natural end, as in the sims dying of old age, since I don't keep succeeding generations in the same household as their parents. I move them to a folder I made for saves I'm not currently playing. I did have one save where my original sim's husband died of old age, and she lived on and on after her life expectancy had passed. I finally couldn't play her anymore, because her life seemed too lonely, after being with her husband for so long. But I didn't delete her save either. She's still in my saves on hold folder, where I could return to her again, if I ever decide to. Not all of my saves on hold are on my computer. I have a removable hard drive for storage, and all of the older saves are on it.

I've got several old external drives with old games. I don't know how far back they go. On one drive I recently copied to my backup drive I found the early saves for the game where Patience had 15 babies and I later used as the basis for my Big Game.

I recently found a save from about a year after I started playing, and decided I want to resume that one, sometime after I finish with my current household.

I have a save I want back that I deleted in January.

I don’t understand this ‘deleting saves.’ Never have I ever deleted a save! Why would you do that?!

I’ve kept saves of all my generations so I can always go back if I want to. Never did though (well, only when I need someone or something from a save, but never to play it). Everything in there is part of my current sim’s heritage and past, it can’t be replayed.