Jehane40 Here's how to (try to) recover a backup:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/recover-backup-save-game/
But if it's been too long, your backups might be too recent to help.
If you can get the items into your sims' inventories, they can gift them (Seasons) to the other sim, at which point the items will be owned by that other sim again. Putting the items in the household inventory and then back on the ground might help as well. And a klepto sim should be able to swipe the items, if all else fails.
Thank you! I'll try and let one of the kids pick up those medals to gift them to the parents, maybe that works :) I think those older saves might be lost because I keep overwriting the current save but I'll try the gift thing. It did work with other stuff, after all - when the oldest kid left for college, she didn't take any of her stuff with her, and when she finished college, she moved into her own apartment. To get her old stuff (cheerleader's trophy and such), I had to move it into her dad's inventory so he could gift it to her. Worked like a charm :)
