No I didn't load a backup. I've been playing sims for MANY years but I have no idea how to even do that, I never have had to. I have 2 save games...I never even entered the 2nd one after having all these issues with the first one...so I am going to assume that one also is going to be affected, seems like forever at this point. Last night I used a family to test, turned on aging, went to live mode, they all aged up instantly (this was after the patch), so I went to CAS and reverted their ages back. Their lifespan bars started over, but that did not resolve the problem. When restarting the game their lifespan bars are again filled to the max ready to age up as soon as I entered live mode, but I have aging off, if I turn it on they will just age up all over again. What I'm hearing here is that I will never be able to have aging turned on if I want to continue to play in the saves I've had for years. or that I have to use a backup, however that is done, and lose everything I've done in the game since the bug occurred.