Simpocalypse - The Tale of Lost Saves

"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…

@LehmanLegacy June 2019 some chick on the Microsoft support line wiped my computer to factory settings and updated windows 10. I lost a years worth of stuff, music I created, a book I wrote (I thought it was in the cloud, it wasn't) and ALL of my Sims saves. Took me a while to get over it. I was able to restore my PC from a 2018 backup, but I started playing the sims 4 Christmas 2018 so I lost all my saves. Thankfully I save every sim and build to the gallery, so I was able to restart, but the legacy save I created that was just gone.

Now I have a NAS with two drives that are mirrored and I back everything up to that. So if, God forbid, I have a drive failure I have my system restore on an external drive and all my game saves backed up to my NAS.

As for CC, I keep a spreadsheet of all the CC & Mods I am using in game. So if I need to update a mod I know where I got it from. I still can't locate some of the CC hair, which is mostly what I downloaded then, I had back then. But anything I have now is in that spreadsheet.

So it took me about a year to recover, but I heal slowly.