lets see if we can rescue your family go to edit town click on your sims house then move them out and save a copy of them to the libiary they will loose the friends and wishes they had but will keep their skills and items in the inventory... then you can try move them back into the house or start a new game and with your family that is saved to the libiary you can move them in
The only thing is in edit town mode my house is shown as empty with no sims living in it.
do you have a previous save of that game ? or the back up of it from when you last save you can then rename the backup folder of that saved game and see if the family show up if they do save them via the edit town go to your the sims 3 folder saves find your game whatever you named it make a copy of the backup file for example my sims save is SSV.sims3 the back up SSV.sims3.backup i copy the backup and rename it SSV1.sims3 launch it and if my sims are as they should be i then save the family
if that doesn't work for you we'll get some help for you
Thank you so much for trying to help I really appriciate it! But this is just getting to confusing for me, I'm going to have to make a new game and lose the corrupted one. Thank you again and hopefully this won't happen again.
Make regular backups of your game. Save in circles (<savegamename1>, <savegamename2>,...)
Always make an extra save game before going travelling, going to Uni, going to the future and moving.
I had this simular problem, traveled there, it was odd the person my Sim was dating vanished from here list of known's. When she traveled back to the present, her created bot was was greeving for a lost sim that they witnessed dying. My sim did not appear back, however it showed her as being in the Future still. When I reboot and start the game over, this repeatedly happens, no other outcomes. When I was back in the present, I did notice the other house where the "going steady" sim lived, no longer appeared either. I tried to save my sim in the Future as a pre-made sim, going back into the main menu to see if I can find them there, no such luck :-( I saved before I went into the future, than saved once again (because it was a safe travel) when she was about to travel back, so there she is stuck.
Try the solutions suggested here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/WA-BUG-Sims-not-arriving-at-Travel-Destination/m-p/145250#U145250
They might work for your issue.
I have had this same problem as well and have tried clearing catches and using new families. I can travel to the future but when i try to return the sims become uncontolable and the emotion meter turns light blue and all family member icons are gone. the game does show the activity that your returning sim is on wich is stuck on arriving if you go to edit town the house now shows empty but the sims are still there. also if you use the moveobjects on cheat and click on the sims they no longer have there names but are simply called sim and have a black sphere icon. I would also like to note that if you fastforward the game long enough to have wishes load up the returning sim still receaves oasis based wishes such as vistit the bot shop.
