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omgyamisocringe
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5 years ago

Installed World was Deleted on its own!?! [SOLVED]

I think I've pretty much accepted defeat at this point, but is there a method into saving my lost saved households?

I know I should've made a backup saved folder, but I couldn't, personally. Everything was fine, except for the lag when I was building a lot, then I went to save a family from there to the main menu and then all of the sudden I see that some households within a custom world was greyed out saying that: "Cannot load this save game. It may have been saved with expansion pack data that is no longer present on this system". I figured it was just a glitch from the launcher, like I had to recheck my installed packs, but other families that weren't apart of that world were okay. I thought things were fine until I checked my Installed Worlds folder to find out that they were both deleted (I had another one there, too, but I never played). I went to my recycled bin to try and restore, but it wouldn't let me (I didn't even close that folder out). I thought about installing a program so that I can restore my lost content, but some of them seem shady (scared I won't get my money back and whatnot). In my launcher, it says that they're fully installed, but apparently they're not (they World Caches are still there, too). I'm only stressed because of a sim family that I didn't quite save. Can they be restored if uploaded them from another computer or am I forked?

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  • The way this procedure works, if it's going to work, is that you have a brand new test game in Sunset Valley. Save and then quit the game entirely. Put a copy of the nhd file for Everything Island from your previously played and progressed game into the save folder, so that it is now alongside of the existing Sunset Valley nhd file.

    Close all windows and start up the game, if you can. Grab some Sunset Valley sims and see if you can travel them to Everything Island and, if so, if the already played and progressed instance of that world loads. Of course this assumes that the underlying .world is now properly installed again.

    The serious error has occurred thing usually means that one or more files critical to the save are open or being seen as in use at the time that the game is trying to start up. Just having the folders they are in open in Windows Explorer can do it, or it might mean a file (the nhd we suspect in this case) is too damaged to load.
  • ? Okay, good news @igazor @izecson. Their icon pops up as well as their house icon does, it's just that the house icon is still greyed out and so I can't click on the enter button. I'll be testing the rest, yeah.
  • @izecson I don't know. I think I'm slightly off on something, but I did everything that was said. I'm still doing trials and errors. I'm probably just overthinking it, but whatever.
  • UPDATE: I managed to get some help and was able to successfully play my household, again. I was told to just create a new folder, disable my wifi and go offline on Origin, then create a new save with my corrupted folder after re-installing my custom world.

    Once I got to the main menu, the checkmark wasn't greyed out nor was anything else. I'm currently trying to know why it behaved like that and what's the safe way to copy stuff over.

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