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?

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The_Mercuria
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago

I don't have the heart to play Lita & Thomas just yet, so I've been building or ignoring the game. Thing is, I DID exit the game without saving. Her inventory is still poofed. I've always just saved instead of save as because I can't keep having all these new game saves. I like 3 games and that's it - played Sims, builds, death - 3 games. I'm on a laptop so I don't have space, power, etc but I have a new desktop coming in so maybe I'll start saving more games to have backups. In the meantime, I'm getting caught up on new music and house chores. :'(
manicobsessive1
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
Oh that is so frustrating. It's so strange that exiting without saving didn't bring it back. I'd be so upset if that happened to me. I hope you'll feel like playing again soon. :'(
babajayne
Seasoned Ace
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 Ace
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 Vanguard
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!

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