What happened in your sims 3 game today?
Hey everyone. :) I've been playing Sunset Valley (along with the W mod) and I just made some CRAZY things happen yesterday and today with the Langerak Family. Hee hee ;) Well, I thought I would pic...
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"emorrill;13193789" wrote:"igazor;13193757" wrote:
@emorrill - Well, that's good news!
This isn't going to be much help I suppose, but the first few times I worked on users' computers with System Restore in place many years ago when it was new, I found cleverly crafted malware that kept coming back hiding in their Restore Points. I have since never allowed it to be in place on any Windows machine in my control. For personal use, other than TS3, I use Macs though.
Not entirely sure I would recommend every Windows user keep it turned off as it can be helpful at times. But I certainly don't trust it. And I would never allow a home system to auto-update if that's what triggered all of this. Don't mind being notified of impending updates (Patch Tuesday just came and went), but I get to decide when to update, not MS or Apple. Again though, every user's patterns are different.
But on any system there is no substitute for regularly made backups. I could stand to lose say a week's worth of gameplay if something went horribly wrong, but all of it? No way. :)
^^True!!!
Well, I went into the game and the save files have been corrupted... :'(
Guess I just have to start over...
Next time something odd happens, go into your control panel and then follow this path.
Administrative tools --> Event viewer --> Windows logs ---> start with application and then check security and system.
I often use this when troubleshooting (all my fancy computer degrees come in handy sometimes). You can see what program did this and why it happened. It seems odd that files would be deleted. So, I'd be curious to see what caused it. Since you did a system restore, I'm not sure the data is still there but it might be.
You will be looking for warnings and errors. If you copy/paste the event ID into Google, you will get some hits back and can narrow down the cause. Sometimes the description will tell you by clicking on general and details. However, I like to fix whatever caused the error so I will google to find out what it is and if I need to kick a program to the curb and off my computer.
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