The horror!!! Sims 3 saves gone!!!
Hey everyone. I just needed to rant about this a little. So this weekend I had a system error with my computer that would not allow me to boot it at all. Lucky for me I still had my recovery disks and the disks allowed me to complete a system backup before resetting the whole system back to factory setting. Once I looked at the external hard drive that I saved the backup files on I saw that everything was saved: my music, pictures, documents...but my sims 3 and sims 4 files had half of the information missing. This included my saves. I am not sure why my saves were not backed up at all when I did the system backup. I would have thought everything could be savable.
I do have many of the sims 3 and sims 4 saves backed up on another USB drive, but these files are from last year (oops I've been forgetting to back them up manually recently.) So I can at least use those files and just replay them to get to where each family were. I do not play the sims every single day so I don't think I would be missing a ton of information with these older files. But I did just recently create a all brand new family and it sucks that I never got a chance to save them. Again, lucky for me I had only started to play that family about two weeks before the system error so I'm still in a terrible situation. I just have to try and remember all of the customization's I made to the sims, the house I purchased, and a few of the buildings in the town.
So the rule for the day: always manually back up your save files periodically. A system backup may not always back up everything on your computer.
Anyone else have something like this happen to them?
I do have many of the sims 3 and sims 4 saves backed up on another USB drive, but these files are from last year (oops I've been forgetting to back them up manually recently.) So I can at least use those files and just replay them to get to where each family were. I do not play the sims every single day so I don't think I would be missing a ton of information with these older files. But I did just recently create a all brand new family and it sucks that I never got a chance to save them. Again, lucky for me I had only started to play that family about two weeks before the system error so I'm still in a terrible situation. I just have to try and remember all of the customization's I made to the sims, the house I purchased, and a few of the buildings in the town.
So the rule for the day: always manually back up your save files periodically. A system backup may not always back up everything on your computer.
Anyone else have something like this happen to them?
