This is suddenly happening to my game too. I had a save from August 29 that I opened on September 2, played for it for a little while, saved, exited, all seem normal (no errors), BUT when I went back in on September 3, I noticed that the icon for resuming the game was a different family than where I had left off the last time I played and saved, (it was the same from Aug 29), but I figured OK I’ll click anyway and it brought me to the map screen (not to the family in the resume icon), so I went to the family where I had left off on Sept 2 and the first thing I noticed was that one of the Sims in the household no longer had her job, which I distinctly remembered her working at on the previous days that I had played with this game.
Then I noticed that the things I had done the previous day were no longer saved (in fact, I now noticed Sim time had reverted to what it was on Aug 29), but strangely one of the items she had collected when I played on Sept 2 was still in her house (although no longer register in the collections window as having been collected—it was an axolotl from Lovestruck), and the fish she had caught doing the Sad Bear quest were in the refrigerator. But she no longer had any fishing skill when she’d been level 2 or 3 before.
I did a “save as” changed the file name, tried to load the newly Saved As game, and it did the same thing with not saving any progress I made. Sim time reverted to what it had been Aug 29 ( although the save file time and date stamp keeps saying it’s today).
So then I did another test after using the recover option trying to recover the Sept 2 file . Went back to the family I was trying to play. Her job was missing again. Everything was erased back to the point of Aug 29, but the inventory in the refrigerator was from after Aug 29, and her job was gone again.
So this time all I did was give her her job back and then place a Christmas tree on the lot just as a test. I saved, exited, went back in and the same things happening again— it’s the wrong icon to resume the game, wrong last saved family showing. I go to the family I was trying to play, her job is gone again, the fish she caught are still in the refrigerator, AND Christmas tree I just added is there. That’s the only thing it saved from my previous session. All other changes erased back to what I had on Aug 29. Hmmmm.
I even tried playing the family on the resume game icon, but no changes would save for them either, even though the game acts like it’s saving okay. My husband thinks that it actually is having a save error but there’s no dialog box coming on the screen to tell me this (like we have with the saving error 0, etc).
I started a new game and all seems right with that game. If I go back in and try to resume the game it goes back to the family I was playing and all is well so far.
So I think something is corrupted in my other saved gane, but I don’t know what corrupted it and that’s what’s got me worried. I don’t use any mods or CC. I’d only been playing this game file since Lovestruck came out, but I did have a lot of Sims added to it (64/150) from cupids corner, and all that, which is a lot more than I usually have in any saved game, but it’s not close to the limit.
Just really puzzled at the moment. I did do the Repair game thing today when I first noticed the problem, it it made no difference. I think the file is hosed. 😞
