Lost most part of my saved files (?)
Hi everyone, I'm pretty new here, but not to The Sims. I've never had this issue before. I went to load my game this morning as usual. Was playing in Willow Creek and my families seemed to be fine....
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@dudapropp All your saves seem to have extra numbers in them, as in, not Slot_00000002.save, or Slot_00000002.save.verx (x being a number 0 to 4), but Slot_00000002.save 47.ver1. That extra number shouldn't be there, and it will prevent the game from reading or loading the save. The .verx extension is for backup saves, and it also needs to be deleted in order for the game to read the save.
Since you have a large number of save files, you probably have a large number of duplicates. Try to sort by date, or barring that (if they're all recent copies and jumbled together), sort by file size: the copies of a single save file should all be exactly the same size as each other. Take just one copy of one save, move it into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves, change its name so that it reads Slot_0000000x.save (with x being a number 2 to 9 or a letter a to f), and see whether the game loads it. You may want to move the existing files in that saves fodler elsewhere first, just to make it easier to see what you're dealing with.
If one save doesn't work, or it's an older version that doesn't have all your edits, just try another save. As said, you can skip the exact copies and just try one of each distinct file.
@puzzlezaddict will try that. thank you so much!
