Game not Saving right

"igazor;c-17881713" wrote:
I think what might be throwing you off there is that your saves are taking on the surname of the family being actively played at the time. But in reality, the current data all of the sims in your ongoing game are in one game save, the most recent one. The data does not ever cross over between different game saves. The only point of holding onto any older saves would be to load up things as they all existed a long time ago (on purpose I mean, not by accident) or replay something that has since gone horribly wrong -- as in whoops, okay let's go back a week or two and try that again.

The game also makes one backup save for us each time Save or Save As is used and the file name is not changed since the last time. It is not necessary to save any of these much older game save files once time has marched on, unless you want a few for possible nostalgia purposes.

I have easily over 100 saves of my current (and only) ongoing nine year old game saved elsewhere on my computer and other places for backups. That's a bit overkill admittedly, but the point is that I could never lose the entire game all at once unless something really unusual and catastrophic happened. Within the actual Save folder, around five or ten instances of the same ongoing game are plenty, depending on how long it's been since I've cleaned up more or less redundant saves that are no longer required.

The households you see in the household bin by way of Edit Town correspond to Library folder files. Those would exist in any ongoing game that uses the same user and Library folder until such time as you may choose to delete them.

Oh, Okay I think I understand now. Deleting older saves of a family I'm still playing won't affect my family line in the game because it's only using the most recent save and not the other ones. Of course like you said the point of keeping older saves is in case something happens and you need to go back to a previous save or you just want to. I do not want to go back to previous saves of the games unless there is a problem and I really need to. I was thinking that those saves that said back up were connected to the families that I had created that were saved into the Sim bin/ library folder in the edit town mode but it isn't. So, it sounds like it's fine to delete those back up saves too. I'm down to 11 saves, so I think I should be good for now.