Re: Lost all my households
I too went to play a normal night of the sims and all of my households were gone along with anything I had saved in the gallery. it is almost like I never played the game at all. I have tried everyt...
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I'm having similar issues where all my households have disappeared; they are no longer in their homes, nor am I able to move them back into their respected homes because they are no longer available in the Manage Households menu.
I also have this bit of possibly related information: my saved file called 'Community #1' is tagged with "do_not_remove_wicked_whims_version" since this issue, but I've tried everything to retrieve my families ☹️ (they all had back stories and everything...ugh so much time lost).
@Kaleigh03 When you create a household a copy should be added in your library. You could check there to see if the missing households are there? The only 'relational/backstory' information that will come with adding that household from the library back into the game will be what it had at the point it was saved to the library, but at least you would have the household/sims back after placing them into a new lot/game save.
Perhaps it's the mod you mentioned that caused the issue/missing sims? Perhaps you could try creating a new game save that is a copy of the save where they were present, (open the save and do a 'Save as' of this previous save, renaming it so you know what it is - name it test or something distinctive), then leave the game and remove your mods and cache file, and reenter the game only opening the test save to see if the sims are there. Then exit the game without saving. (A bit more detail on the testing process🙂
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Try moving the Mods folder from your "The Sims 4" folder [Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4] to your desktop (save it for reference) and delete the localthumbcache.package file in your “The Sims 4” folder. Then check in a new game save to see if this issue is still occurring. You can test without saving in order to identify which CC/Mods are causing the issue, then remove or add updated version(s) of the Mod/CC causing the issue.
Also, is it possible that your game is saving information into the cloud as Bluebellflora mentioned above? https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/Re-Lost-all-my-households/m-p/11372704#M11516
