"LehmanLegacy;d-991922" wrote:
I am utterly devastated.
Yesterday my trusty laptop decided to not be able to turn on, and I have had to factory reset the entire thing to get it to turn on again…. Meaning I have lost all of my Sims, and other game, data.
Not accounting for the CC I’m going to need to track down again…. HOW CAN I GO ON NOW THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED?
Tell me your coping strategies…. Help…
Ohhhh, that hurts. Many of us have been there, done that. *sigh*
Over the past 20 years of playing the Sims, this has happened to me more than a few times (harddrive crash, game crash, accidentally deleting the wrong file, etc), so I feel your pain. But I think you might end up surprising yourself once you get back into a fresh new game with a fresh new pair of eyes and find yourself making a few changes and improvements to the way you had things set up before (households, builds, which mods/cc to add back in, etc) and after a while you may find out that you like your new saves much better than the old ones.
Speaking for myself, I discovered that I quite enjoyed restarting some of my households from scratch, even though it took a long time to feel like my families were back to where they were when I lost my saves, I think it actually went faster rebuilding everything and everyone.... maybe because I knew exactly how I needed to set things up based on how they were before? *shrug*
It's a pain to start all over again, but believe it or not, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and you just might end up enjoying the journey to get there. :)
Also note: Backup backup backup! Something I think we've all had to learn the hard way.... backup your tray folder, mods folder, screenshots folder, and saves folder to an external drive (flash drive or external harddrive or cloud server).