[FIXED] Items collected in personal inventory are disappearing

@crinrict wrote:

Tagging this as needs input for now. Maybe someone can find any kind of pattern on when and how it happens.

Questions though (for everyone posting here)

• Do you play rotationally ?
• If you do, did you have a flea market happening while you were playing another family ?
• What were you doing when you noticed the stuff missing ? After a vacation in GF or S ? Did you travel with your Sim ? 
• Are you playing an kind of active career ?
• Which items (type) do go missing ? Only collectibles or other stuff ?

Here are the answers for my first save that had issues.

• Do you play rotationally ?   I have played rotationally in this file, but not recently. I have also been moving the child and dog to one of my other households for when this family goes on vacation to Selvadorada.
• If you do, did you have a flea market happening while you were playing another family ?  Since I haven't been playing rotationally for a while in this save, I think the flea market question is probably not applicable.
• What were you doing when you noticed the stuff missing ? After a vacation in GF or S ? Did you travel with your Sim ? I have three sims in this current household and only one had most of his inventory emptied (see note below). He had just completed the Jungle Adventures aspiration shortly before this happened, they returned home and he did go for work for the day (scientist career but I didn't join him).
• Are you playing an kind of active career ? The sim who's items went missing is in the scientist career.  I've not played actively in that career for a while. He's either taking vacation or goes on his own, at least the last number of times I've played. 
• Which items (type) do go missing ? Only collectibles or other stuff ? I noticed the majority of his inventory was missing which included collectibles, his scientist inventions, relics and I believe some books he wrote. 

I did end up recovering at a previous stage in the save and he had all his items then so I just played through again.  I just went into the save and his inventory appears full. FYI all three sims have a lot in their inventory because they've been digging at a lot of dig sites, plus I keep plants in their inventories for them to eat. make sure the items didn't disappear after saving.  

Here are my answers for my second save that I noticed issues with:

• Do you play rotationally ? Not in this save, this is the only household I'm playing.
• If you do, did you have a flea market happening while you were playing another family ? N/A
• What were you doing when you noticed the stuff missing ? After a vacation in GF or S ? Did you travel with your Sim ? I have traveled with this family to both GF and S but the books went missing when they were on their home lot. 
• Are you playing an kind of active career ? Neither sim (it's a couple) are employed.
• Which items (type) do go missing ? Only collectibles or other stuff ? I've only noticed skill books going missing (I don't pay attention to other books so wouldn't notice if they went missing 🙂 ). In this save I've noticed Vampire Lore skill books going missing.  I'm pretty sure I've had to buy the third skill book three times and it's gone missing again (I'm having them both learn the skill and they are not vampires). I saw the sim reading it and she stopped to interact with her husband and when I went to get her to read it again it wasn't in either of their inventories, it wasn't on the bookshelf, nor the family inventory and the option to clean up books wasn't available so it does not appear to be somewhere on the lot. As background, their inventory is also quite full as they've been collecting everywhere (S, GF and at home) as I'm working on a challenge with them that they are supposed to complete all the base game collections (and I've expanded it to include the OR and JA collections too).

FYI, I think I've noticed skill books, and in particular the vampire lore book, going missing in other saves, but I play a lot of saves so always chalked it up to my bad memory. I currently play with no mods/cc, though have used MCC in the past.  I clear my game cache regularly (pretty much every time I play).  I also repair fairly frequently, but will try doing that again. My game is current with updates and I have all the packs. I play on Windows 10. 

Thanks and regards, 

Jennifer