And now my save is totally ruined. Awesome......

I have 3 golden rules related to Mods and Sims games, which has applied to all of the Sims games back to the original.

Rule #1: Do not load a game you played with mods after a game update until you have updated all mods that need updating (and gotten the all-clear from the mod-authors on the rest).
That means not playing that save for a while after the game first updates or, what I do, making sure your game doesn't apply the update until your mods are ready for it.

Rule #2: Backup your save games when the game gets an update, in case you think you followed Rule #1 but one of the mods still causes a big problem. (It's worth doing this regularly regardless).

Rule #3: Don't use mods if you aren't emotionally ready to lose an entire save. If you follow Rules 1 and Rules 2, you should be fine....but you know... ____ happens.

I have never used a mod that "resets" it's settings when updated. But one solution when that happens is to load the game, get all the settings set, then exit the game without saving it. Then reload back into the original game saved before the update.
Most mod's with advanced settings like that are saving them to an external file in the mods folders, so once you get them set they stay set. MCCC saves it's settings to a file named "mc_settings.cfg" in the same folder under /mods where it is located, for example. When updating MCCC, do NOT delete or replace this file and your settings are retained.

I suspect you may have lost your settings not because of the update, but because you deleted the file that held the settings when updating mods.

No worries. You can recover previous saves from the save selection in the main menu.

Otherwise, the only thing I can suggest is making backups...

Usually depends on the mod itself depending on what it is (never hurts to see if anyone else had said problem with the mod before after a update). Things like MC command haven't really had a problem with keeping my previous settings.

I always ended up making a backup copy of my save (something I learned after a lot of woe in my Sim 3 days) in case something goes wrong and seeing if a mod ended up breaking with any updates.

Did you save or something after that and can't go back to the original save? That is pretty unfortunate.

"Stormkeep;c-18050840" wrote:
I have 3 golden rules related to Mods and Sims games, which has applied to all of the Sims games back to the original.

Rule #1: Do not load a game you played with mods after a game update until you have updated all mods that need updating (and gotten the all-clear from the mod-authors on the rest).
That means not playing that save for a while after the game first updates or, what I do, making sure your game doesn't apply the update until your mods are ready for it.

Rule #2: Backup your save games when the game gets an update, in case you think you followed Rule #1 but one of the mods still causes a big problem. (It's worth doing this regularly regardless).

Rule #3: Don't use mods if you aren't emotionally ready to lose an entire save. If you follow Rules 1 and Rules 2, you should be fine....but you know... ____ happens.

I have never used a mod that "resets" it's settings when updated. But one solution when that happens is to load the game, get all the settings set, then exit the game without saving it. Then reload back into the original game saved before the update.
Most mod's with advanced settings like that are saving them to an external file in the mods folders, so once you get them set they stay set. MCCC saves it's settings to a file named "mc_settings.cfg" in the same folder under /mods where it is located, for example.

I suspect you may have lost your settings not because of the update, but because you deleted the file that held the settings when updating mods.

Yeah, I think that's what happened. I just started the game after about 3 weeks of not playing and the game just auto updated. I didn't get a say at all before it updated. I need to see why it auto updated.

Yes, I'm a bit upset that I lost that save. I did work hard on it and it's a bit annoying but it's not the end of the world. I had the Sims saved in my gallery, only differences is I made them married already before I play them where in my last save, I had them marry as I played them. I don't feel like going through that again. I'll just do everything the same, but I'll make sure I keep back ups handy and turn the auto updating off. So when I think about it, it is my fault this happened but live and learn.

"EgonVM;c-18050842" wrote:
No worries. You can recover previous saves from the save selection in the main menu.

Otherwise, the only thing I can suggest is making backups...

Yes, I'm going to start making back ups from now on. That was something I didn't think to do.

"LadyKyn;c-18050843" wrote:

Did you save or something after that and can't go back to the original save?

I did not. I loaded the game up, got the 'mods disabled' notification, but I didn't re-enable them, I did load the save first, but then I back out without saving. I deleted the contents of the Mods folder, installed the new MCCC , put the aging back in, loaded my game but it still aged up my Sims and pets prematurely. Apparently, updating mods and putting new mods in does not work the same way in Sims 4 as they do in Sims 3.

I just lost a save from my own foolishness, but I feel your pain. I haven't messed with mods too much because of this games crazy update cycle. I only just decided to turn off updates because I would rather have an old game with mods than anything without them.

Back up, back up, back up. Keep your Origin setting to off when it comes to automatic updates. This will give you the chance to pull your mods folder before you allow the game to update. Back up that saves folder before you do ANYTHING. Trust me, I know your pain. I've gotten a rather thick skin over the multitude of mistakes I have made concerning patches and mods. I no longer even know how many times I've restarted my Cantrell save, it's been that many. Don't lose heart. You should have a copy of your Sims in the Gallery under My Library. Just start anew. Maybe even throw in a twist in how you guide the outcome of your story.

Best of luck!

@Fairy_Happy It sounds like you may have deleted your MCCC settings. How did you put the aging back in? Did you delete all of your old MCCC files when updating the mod, even the one with your settings?

I play a lot with mods but I've been very careful and lucky in that I haven't lost any S4 saves.

Next time you update MCCC do not delete the files ending with .cfg These are your settings for the mod, keeping these will save you from having to re-enter your settings every time there is an update. :)

Also:

Check your Recycle Bin for MCCC folders and restore it (let it override the updated version of MCCC).

• If you deleted individual files rather than the folder, just restore the .cfg files (MC settings and Dresser if used), create backups of them and skip to step 5.
  

Move the .cfg files (MC settings and Dresser if used) to the desktop or a backup folder somewhere.

Update MCCC again.

Place copies of your .cfg files in the MCCC folder to restore your settings.

Load up your game and use the restore function on your save game rollback to a previous version.


You might lose some progress, but it's better than losing the whole save. You also get your original settings back in case you missed something.

"joleaco;c-18053994" wrote:
Next time you update MCCC do not delete the files ending with .cfg These are your settings for the mod, keeping these will save you from having to re-enter your settings every time there is an update. :)

Speaking of which, What is the MCCC download site? I lost the link and don't trust google. Heh.