I disabled them after the sims disappeared. Like I said in the post, I have never had anything like this happen in all the years I have played the sims. So, I didn't even really know to backup the files. I have also been majorly revamping my worlds, adding new sims, adding new buildings, and editing sims so I have been saving like crazy just to make sure I don't loose any progress. I may have one, but I am not entirely sure if I do or not since I would be on a terabyte (it was when I transferred over saves from a previous computer, which was months ago, so I don't know how far back the save is)