"Alyssabam05_;c-16900690" wrote:
I have a problem. My sims 3 was not loading on the second loading screen to get into my saved world and so I came on here to find some answers. I read something that said “go into documents then ‘Electronic arts’ and click and drag the sims folder to the desktop”. I did all that and when I went back onto the sims, all of my houses were gone. I have no mods or anything so that’s fine, but how do I get my games back? :'(
The point of pulling the TS3 user game folder out of Documents is to get the game the generate a fresh one that has no added content, mods, saved sims, lots, worlds, saved games to see if a new test game works properly. Your content and saves are still safe back in the pulled out folder and you can put that folder back at any time.
If things are working correctly on the new game folder, you can move (copy) any content you had on the old one into the new one and copy your saves over so they become available for play again.
If everything works right but the older saved game still fails to load on the fresh game folder, then you likely have a corrupt save that cannot be fixed. If there are any backup saves in the old game folder from earlier points in time, you would want to try those as well. And if any of those saves end in .backup, you would want to rename them so they end in .sims3 in order to try loading them.
