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Anonymous
10 years ago

Re: Sims 3 Errors, Glitches, Bugs, & Problems Without Working Solutions

So....what if, in my saves folder, there is no .backup or .legacy? All I have is 'recentgamename'.sims3.bad and a sid.sims3.bad file.  I've searched everywhere, no file exists by those names so...I take it this is either an Origin problem or an extra SSD problem, in my case, and everything Ive built and created is null and void? Which I'm actually used to these days. heh

Seems the only way I can play my sims3 is to leave it running, minimized or otherwise. ☹️

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  • rumbutter's avatar
    rumbutter
    Hero (Retired)
    10 years ago

    @TnIoGvEaR

    .bad are no good it meant either the save didn't save right or corrupted

    your saves-saved game should look like this

    my saved game is blue highlight the back up red highlight

    also this bit is  important open the recentgames folder if any files are in there delete them

    while playing files do build up in there that's normal  BUT once we're done with the game saved/exit/quit those files in that folder empties out and should not been seen

    one thing you could try if you wish to is see if you can rename the .bad one by carefully editing out .bad and rename the save completely to something like test.sims3  launch and play if all is well at that point then re-save with a new name  and i think if it where me i'd save a copy of my sims and lot to the library  use the export button to share them but not actually upload them go to the exports folder and save a copy of  that somewhere else so i would at the least have my sime to install again if something else went wrong

    once you rename one of your .bad folders  delete the .bads they are no good

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Many thanks for taking the time and going into such detail! I took your advice and renamed the file. Simple as that. Just removed the .bad. lol

    Occam's razor. 🙂

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