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ProbablyBadIdea
3 years ago
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Deleted Sims

Recently I made a very rash decision and nuked the Sims 4 off of my laptop because I wanted to trim down my massive mods folder after some of them broke with the recent patch. I loved the sims that I...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @ProbablyBadIdea  If you didn't make a backup and never uploaded your sims to the Gallery, then no, there's probably nothing you can do.  EA doesn't support cloud saving for Sims 4.  You might get lucky and have some leftover files stored in OneDrive (Windows) or iCloud Drive (macOS), but there's no guarantee.

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ProbablyBadIdea
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddict Thanks for the reply, I checked my OneDrive and there were some of my sims that had been backed up to it. Unfortunately my newer sims hadn't been saved but at least I have a good portion of my sims back.
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BylineBelife
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@ProbablyBadIdea So sorry. For the future, if you ever make a sim you think is extra good, upload it to the Gallery. In the description I write, "uploading as a backup" so others need not complain of cc or other things, and I do that despite of having a huge portable harddrive that I regularly make backups on. One can not have too many copies. And trust me, I've learnt that the hard way.

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