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simhead82
New Novice
9 hours ago
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All lots reverted back to default lots?

I noticed on the neighborhood view my houses that I built were no longer showing up. The houses are the default lots when you start a new neighborhood and when I entered a lot that had a house I had ...
corrupted save
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    7 hours ago

    simhead82​  Okay, then I'm not sure why it crumbles some of the time.  (I've recreated this kind of behavior in a pattern that mimics OneDrive interference, and sometimes antivirus interference, but that's all for now.)  So I would say that you just need to be very careful with it and keep backups.

    If you want to test whether the save is holding together during a play session, use "save as" to create a new save slot, then look at the save file size.  The size can vary a bit, but if it's decreased by more than a trivial amount, say 2-5 MB, that play session is probably toast and you'll need to revert.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 hours ago

simhead82​  Those are some very large saves, as Sims 4 saves go.  That itself might be the issue, either directly or not.  I would still like to know the location of your user folder—if it's in OneDrive, the same issue could easily happen again.

It's great that your oldest backup is intact.  If you want to try the others, go ahead (and make spare copies), except that the .ver2 file looks to be too small.  It may well have disintegrated in the same way as you saw with the main save that led you to post here.

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