I have good news! Until today, my file had been completely hosed. It was 220,000K in size and nothing but random build/buy changes were saving. I fiddled with the file, tried using different versions of it, repaired my game twice (even did the thing where you remove the whole Sims folder and force the game to recreate it), and nothing helped, so I finally gave up last week and resigned myself to placing the Sims I'd saved in my gallery to a new file and starting over.
Well, after today's update, I noticed that the new file I'd been playing for about a week now had strangely DECREASED in size when I saved it just now. And that was after I'd added a couple new lots to the maps. Hmmmm.
On a whim, I loaded the "corrupted" file, let things run for a while (gave the Sims time to get to sleep), then saved again and the file size reduced from 220,000k down to 8000K AND when I loaded the game again, everything had saved! The Sims were in bed where I left them!
I have no idea what happened or why, or if this file is "all better now", but maybe I can play it long enough to finish the stories I was working on with it and then just move on to something else. But it seems like something in today's update fixed "something" because that is a huge change in file size when I did nothing but let the game run for a few minutes. I didn't delete anything from it.
So, hopefully today's update with help a few others that have been having this problem with saving progress. ❤️
Hi! I had the exact same problem! And oh my gosh that expanded game file size explains so much! I had a ton of storage space issues all of a sudden. I can’t wait to see if my corrupted game is ok again. I did want to warn you though, I’d done that thing where I generated a new Sims 4 file, and after playing a new save for a couple weeks (which did eventually get the same Groundhogs Day situation) I discovered that I no longer had my rewards from the event a couple months ago. The new garbage can etc. That stuff is stored in your Sims 4 file, I can’t remember the name of the place it’s in though, maybe User Settings? Anyway, luckily I had saved the folder I took out and was able to put them back into the new file I’d created. You might want to check if yours is missing too. 😊
Oh, thank you for that tip! I do still have the old folder out on my desktop so I can copy the user ini file back to keep the rewards.
