So I was playing my beloved Lita and our horse Thomas. We made sure everyone was fed, watered, loved on, and proceeded to harvest our garden.I was selling multiple flowers, beans, etc. I had turned on multiple because it's easier selecting a lot of flowers, than dragging them one by one to sell.Somehow I selected MY ENTIRE INVENTORY and deleted all but two veggies!!! I'm talking upgrade parts, my cache of plants, nectar (thankfully not the aged stuff), rare objects, daily items, tons of everything. I went to manage worlds without saving then back into Lita's farm and it's all still gone.Ugh, I closed Sims and think I'm going to do housework, I'm that gutted. :'( :'( :'(

Not this exactly, but I have lost builds that I've thought were uploaded to the Gallery and weren't. Plus when something glitches and I lose game progress. I can empathize!

"NRowe;c-18306273" wrote:Not this exactly, but I have lost builds that I've thought were uploaded to the Gallery and weren't. Plus when something glitches and I lose game progress. I can empathize! OMG I used to do that all the time! Now I upload everything to my library, even test Sims. I have no idea why I save test Sims but I do. LOL

You need to exit without saving, not just go to manage worlds. If you didn't save when you exited the game, it should all be still there when you load it up again.

I think I ended up losing a birth certificate of one of my sim self's children. I did a bit of building work before then and low and behold Ayla's birth certificate is no where to be found. I even checked his klepto daughter-in-law who had attended their last gathering at the time but she was innocent!

When I read the title of this thread, I thought you were going to stay you deleted an entire household or save. I have accidentally deleted the wrong save. As @crocobaura said, if you exited without saving your stuff should still be there when you reload the game. If you did save before exiting, you can go back to a previous save.

Ever delete stuff and just ... cry?

babajayne
2 years ago
If you didn’t save, you didn’t save. Going to Manage Worlds (whether you save there or not) doesn’t restart your save. If you had gone to the Main Menu without saving, then reloaded your save, everything would have been back. I bet if you reload your save now, you’ll see it’s fine. And if not, then you did save somewhere. Even that would be fine. Each save file has up to 5 backups that you can Restore to. There is an icon on each save you can click to see the backups.
allthemore44
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
I once deleted my entire 20 GB mods folder with no way to recover it. I thought I might die.
The_Mercuria
Seasoned Novice
2 years ago
"babajayne;c-18308690" wrote:
If you didn’t save, you didn’t save. Going to Manage Worlds (whether you save there or not) doesn’t restart your save. If you had gone to the Main Menu without saving, then reloaded your save, everything would have been back. I bet if you reload your save now, you’ll see it’s fine. And if not, then you did save somewhere. Even that would be fine. Each save file has up to 5 backups that you can Restore to. There is an icon on each save you can click to see the backups.

I had no idea I could recover older games! I did just that and now Lita has all her stuff again. Woot!
Reddestiny921
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
I haven't deleted things in that way but I remember some time ago i had a large family that was when I really started putting their pictures on the wall. I had outdoor retreat for a bit and hadn't used it in a while, when they got back the house was showing on the map but when I loaded it rhe house was gone.
Couldn't get it back so started over i dont know what possessed me to take them on vacation again but the cabin they used had the same glitch, but their house survived that trip. I still have a hard time even attempting to actually camp. Maybe you can roll back your save and eveything will be fine if you're lucky.
LaunchSneezes
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
I have 15 households in one save right now. And counting. I don't want to delete any of the sims because I love all of them, and I think I would regret it, but I'm getting overwhelmed lol.

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