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Swag020406
4 years ago
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[FIXED] [PC/MAC] Save Error 0 (Patch 1.86.166)

Product: The Sims 4 Platform: PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.86.166.1030 What ...
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    10 months ago

    • When attempting to save, "Error Code: 0" no longer occurs related to Gigs or Neighborhood Stories.

    Fixed in Patch 1.109.185/1.98
    Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issues

321saySims's avatar
321saySims
11 months ago
Unfortunately it is a save where I use CC so I cannot make the saves available for the EA investigation in progress.

Sunem1's avatar
Sunem1
New Scout
11 months ago

This just started to happen to me today, save error code 0. But I can't submit my save file either since I also use mods. The game has been particularly frustrating to play lately and is almost unplayable for me without the mods I use. It did save under the "save as" option so far, but I'm afraid to keep trying to play since I do NOT want to lose my saves!

  • EvilPenguin618's avatar
    EvilPenguin618
    11 months ago
    @Sunem1 Some tips as I went through the same thing.
    Keep 3-4 save as files and rotate using them so they are never more than a day or so old. Protection against losing much,
    NEVER save in the expansion worlds of high school, university, lovestruck. That will corrupt your save eventually. If that happens, go to a base game world and use save as.
    ONLY save in base game worlds. Seems to avoid the save file corruption of code 0
    Check Neighborhood Stories regularly. Weird. But it seems to help.
  • tammyyeah's avatar
    tammyyeah
    11 months ago

    It used to be an occasional problem for me but today after getting the forbidden tree it’s gone haywire and I can’t save OR save as. Even if I save to go to worlds, then quit and open the game, it reverts to the unsaved version. Checked storage, files and folder access, nada. 

  • Sunem1's avatar
    Sunem1
    New Scout
    11 months ago
    @EvilPenguin618 Thank you, I'll keep that in mind!
  • EvilPenguin618's avatar
    EvilPenguin618
    11 months ago
    @tammyyeah Move your save folder to your desktop.
    Run game to create new folder
    Close game
    Un your save folder on your desktop you'll see save filles something like:
    mygame1
    mygame2
    mygame3
    mygame4
    mygame5
    mygame.tmp

    delete those temp files. That's where the corruption usually occurs and even blocks the new save

    Swap in the other save files one by one into your new game save folder to see if one still works with normal save game.

    If so, play on from there. If not, unfortunately you're at that horrible position of throwing away your saves and starting over.

    It's not a storage or file access or repair game issue. Something went wrong in the update coding that brought back an old bug.
  • EmilyBAlfie's avatar
    EmilyBAlfie
    Seasoned Novice
    11 months ago

    @EvilPenguin618  can you give more instructions for this please? i’m a little confused

  • EvilPenguin618's avatar
    EvilPenguin618
    11 months ago
    @EmilyBAlfie sure thing
    In your sims game folder is a save folder. It is usually located at:
    Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
    Drag the saves folder to your desktop
    Now, when you run the game, no saves folder, so a new one is created.
    Close the game
    Go to your desktop saves folder and open it
    You should see something like:
    Slot0000asave.tmp
    Slot00002.save
    Slot00002.save.ver0
    Slot00002.save.ver1
    Slot00002.save.ver2
    Slot00002.save.ver3
    Slot00002.save.ver4
    Slot00004.save

    And so on. Each time you use the save function for a game, it saves in one of the five versions. So!!! Hopefully, somewhere in those multiple saves is one that isn't corrupted and will save properly. However, the temp save files are almost always bugged so ignore them.

    So drag a save file like slot0002 ver0 from the desktop save file into the documents/electronic arts/the sims 4/saves folder.
    Run the game. Load that save. Do something that allows the game to progress - walk around, have a convo, whatever - the see if it saves without the code 0 error.
    If the error occurs, move it back to the desktop folder. Repeat the process with Slot00002 ver 1....then ver 2...then ver 3 ....etc until you find one that works.
  • EmilyBAlfie's avatar
    EmilyBAlfie
    Seasoned Novice
    11 months ago

    @EvilPenguin618 unfortunately i don’t think this fix will work for me as the bug doesn’t immediately happen in my game, but thank you anyway

    i only ‘save as’ now and after getting the bug and going back to an old save file after deleting the corrupted one the bug won’t come back for a few hours.

    when it first happened i went back to a save from a week ago and the bug didn’t happen for another week. 

    after moving out the whole sims 4 folder and creating a new one, moving saves and mods (because i’m 99.9% sure this isn’t a mods issue) to the new folder it’s somewhat fixed? it used to create a save file called ‘scratch’ in the main menu or one with the same name as the previous one which doesn’t save progress. however, last night it created a save file with a blank name when i tried to save as and did save my progress. very strange

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