[FIXED] Save Error 533

If you move them out and back in (not just save from the world manager), that should not happen.

Whatever bug is causing the save error seems to be corrected by moving them out and back in.

I've tried and I was able to save progress despite having the error before.

Moving them out and back in doesn't work, as it resets to a previous save.  I tested this by deleting my garden, and I came back to it fully grown and ready for harvesting.

I've been having the same issue, but I ran into an odd situation.  I'm not sure if this would help or hinder your search.

My sim invited a ghost into his family who recently died on his lot.  She agreed to move in, and he invited her into a club to prevent it from vanishing when all its members died.  He invited her into another club that she wasn't a member of while alive.  The glitch happened, so I moved the family out and came back to the same lot. 

My sim was set back to the last save, but the ghost had an odd progression.  She had been alive in the old save, and should've been again.  Instead, she was a ghost living with her old family.  That never happened at any part in my game, because my sim raised her from the tombstone and invited her into his family.  She never did live with the other family after she became a ghost. 

It intrigued me, so I switched active houses to the one with the ghost.  She kept her membership in both clubs, so the game recorded the club information correctly but didn't update the sim.  It kept her ghostly state, but didn't update her current living arrangements. 

Could you upload your savegame please ?

I'm not sure which save file it was, because I saved frequently under different numbers. The error seems to be object related, and linked to the lot.  I tried to save a bugged lot to my library/gallery without success.  It gave no error message, but the lot wasn't in my gallery and the home page news feed showed a whited out picture.  It was corrupted and couldn't save.  I bulldozed my lot, placed another from the gallery, and the game has played without issue.

FYI:  I play with and without mods.  The error happened both ways, but recoloured objects are causing major issues with the latest patch.  I've seen several 533 errors caused by objects I've played with for several months.  I didn't report them, because they are mods and it's my fault for using them. 

OK.

Please upload should you come across it again.

Thanks

So that is working (although it's tedious to have to continuously move my sims from home to home)  it's working as a temporary fix, but I'm still not able to pinpoint while playing the game what is causing this error to come up. Really hoping a source will be found!

It is tedious and only temporary but I'm confident that the saves I'm able to forward to the CM should help find the source of this and fix the error for good.

Thanks for all the reports and info

@Symux You can easily edit your posts by clicking on the cogwheel and choosing edit.

Please use that if you have stuff to add to your posts. Makes it easier then multiple posts. Do make a new post if someone has answered after you.

Thank you.

Thanks for the info.  I didn't notice the edit button, and I'm glad you pointed it out.  That would've made it much easier 🙂

In the last few weeks, none of the tricks (move in and out,quit and return to the game) were working. Since the last upgrade, it seems to work well. Hope it will stay this way!

Great to hear. Thank you for your feedback

No problems after the 04Feb16 patch until now. I'm getting error 533 again. If I delete an existing member of my household it'll save correctly. I've tried adding outside sims by household manager and CAS, then deleting them. That doesn't work. It has to be a sim already in the household.

I think the glitch is with one sim. She was asleep when I saved. When it boots, she's standing by the bed and immediately queues 'take a shower'. She must hop in then immediately out of the shower. Nothing will dissuade her. She's 100% clean. I even deleted the stupid shower! She still goes through the motions where the shower used to be. Resetting her will stop the attempt to shower, but it still won't save afterward.

So how do I fix a corrupted sim?

Correction: Going into and out of CAS (change appearance) allows a save. So, sort of fixed.

If you still have it, could you please upload your corrupted save.

Thanks

I actually just ran into this issue which was quite weird. I remember that the last time I played my household, I was able to save just fine. On top of that, I just created this "vanilla game" and haven't played into it that much as I've been re-adding in all the lots and sims that I saved to gallery from my old sims 4 folder. The lots have all been added but the relationships are still a little screwed thanks to EA's complex inability to fix them most of the time in my case. Anywaaaays, neither here nor there... I went in my game today to try to fix my relationships, again, wanting to get my family back to a point where it doesn't feel I had to start over (though it still feels like it does). Anyways, my household loaded and before I pressed play on the UI and before getting the error, I used the cheats that I found on SIMSVIP to "hopefully" fix the relationships since for some reason in cas my teen twins cannot be made "daughter" or "son" to their Adult aged parents. The only options are brother and sister when I try to set the relationship and it's the same even if I were to age them down to children. -_-

Anyways, the cheat worked for the one twin but not the other. Not sure why. I tried twice. I figure I'll build her relationship up with her dad since they're acquaintances RN and then try to do the cheat again later, if, after building their relationship doesn't trigger my original attempt to work so it would say he is her dad. So, I moved on to fixing their social groups. New names, new do's and don'ts etc. My point? For 2 of my sims groups, I did use Zerbu's custom group icons. After I did all that, I attempted to save. That's when I got the error. So, I'm not sure if the error had anything to do with that or the cheat codes or not but the lot and everything on the lot was able to save the last time I played and I haven't added anything new since then and those cc icons by zerbu I've had for a bit. I tried switching lots as suggested to my twin sim's half sister's father's household. Saved the game and it worked. Not sure what the deal is. Seriously. Will doing that just cause my game to become corrupt anyway over time? I always save my games as "save as" and I did have a last exception file. It basically mentions relationship tracking and other relationship text and the sort. Probably bcus I messed up on typing in those sims id numbers when placing in the cheat codes. Not sure.

I think the issue is still around if you max your club points.

Do you have a lot of them ?

I didn't know that was possible but no. I just started that save as a vanilla file not too long ago, completely starting over with a new Sims 4 folder. That caused me to redo all of their club selections all over again. My one sim had 221 perk points and the other had 100. Oh but my sims little bro was able to max out the level of people allowed in the club but I still had the 2 open slot availability. I didn't add anyone. Other than that, not sure what else you mean or what it could've been. I literally switched households as I mentioned above and the ability to save worked but I'm concerned if that could cause possible corruption of my game. I'd rather revert to an older save than have to start a vanilla game again if that's the case but idk what the case is. I also played for 2 sim days under that household I switched to and I was able to save fine after going to the detective career with that sim and playing that whole scenario -_- I noticed that inmates disappeared after coming back from an outing though. I thought they fixed that as well. I suppose that glitch is back again.

Willing to share your save game ?

If so, please zip up this folder: documents\electronicarts\thesims4\saves, upload to mediafire or dropbox and PM me the link.

Sure, I can prep it for you and message you with the file link.