"stilljustme2;c-17159766" wrote:
I back up my saves and tray folders frequently -- once a week minimum, plus before every patch. That way if I do run into an issue I can restore my game from the backup and hopefully don't lose much gameplay or my Sims/builds.
Some people suggest using Save As... instead of Save and choosing a new save name, or deleting the localthumbcache.package file before playing. I've only had one issue with a corrupted save, and it wasn't an error code that showed up but rather festivals were no longer spawning (I'd get the notification, but when my Sim went there no festival objects or events showed up. I don't think I've had a single error code event in my game.)
What does backing up the tray folders do? Does stop corruption or is that just in case your game gets corrupted and you have a way to retrieve them besides the library? I have heard the opposite that save is better, but while from time to time I did use Save as in this game, I was using save more and maybe that was what did it lol. But Galaticgirl said she used save as and then afterwards just save and she got a corrupted game.
Thank you for that suggestion. I am going to start doing that. Don't know why I hadn't thought to do that before about backing things up.
