What To Do When You Suspect Your Sims' File Is Corrupted?

I haven't got any answers but perhaps if someone was willing to test out Erik and they have the same problems then maybe it would confirm that he is broken :(

Isnt the game supposed to make 5 backup copies of your current saves, cant you just restore it to a state prior using the buggy mod? Maybe starting today you should use save as instead of save, as well as making one before and after installing/updating your mod.

"izecson;c-17339112" wrote:
Isnt the game supposed to make 5 backup copies of your current saves, cant you just restore it to a state prior using the buggy mod? Maybe starting today you should use save as instead of save, as well as making one before and after installing/updating your mod.

Thank you for responding, both of you. I do use Save As, but that doesn't remove the weird trait my singer Sim has from the mod I removed. (Which I suspect is the cause of any corruption.) Rolling back to a save where I used a mod that's no longer in my game may very well corrupt that file, too. I'm not entirely sure how that works, but I can assure you the Sim that was kidnapped will likely just be gone from the game, for good.

This is what I'm up against. When I started this family, ready to experiment with this new mod, it was whole. Two parents of five children, four teens and one child. The mod managed to take out both the mother and the only daughter, in round one. No matter, I picked myself up and dusted myself off and opened another new game save for round two. This time my singer Sim was taken out by a mad taxi that blew right through their house and struck him down dead on the side patio. I started yet another save, family intact. This time, an Arsonist set fires all over their front porch. (The house is a mansion, the Wright Way House from Sims2.) While the mother was yet inside, I had the father and the teens working to extinguish the fires out front.) In the end, the mother was found dead in the living room. My singer Sim fell ill with a fatal disease, but I couldn't get him to the hospital for the surgery required to (hahaha) save him until they got the last of the fires put out. And believe me, that Arsonist was fully committed to setting fires all over their yard! Erik did manage to get to the hospital and he also managed to survive the rather low 20% chance of successful surgery. I decided to continue on with this save. Yes, they were all torn apart over the loss of their mother, but for once I decided to face the adversity of it, (since I liked the mod for the random threat it presented). One at a time I aged the teens up to YA so I could send them to uni together.



The daughter, just as they were all entering their fifth term, was kidnapped. The game got caught in a tape-loop where there never was any hope of a resolution, despite my Sims paying her captors over §40000. No worries, Erik was able to make money while at the U. But, the scenario that was supposed to play out according to the YouTube 'walk-thru' of this new mod just wasn't happening. When I went back to Discord, I was told by one in the know that the mod was buggy. I was able to use Summon Sim via MCCC and bring her back, but after I used the game cheat reconnect as family, that's when my game save blew apart. I deleted the saves folder, removed the buggy mod, and started over.

I have only played this particular game save since last Friday. I was checking Erik's Traits for some reason and that's when I noticed the curious Reaper's Scythe trait. He had that one in the game save that is no more. I believe it was after he survived that Fatal Disease. I'm uncertain how this copy of him has it. Something is amiss. I am thinking I may as well start the entire family from scratch going back to the lone copy of Erik I created when I decided to bring him forward from Sims3, as my Founder in Pinstar's Legacy Challenge.

You can't remove the trait with a cheat?

The game has always wigged out for me at about the 3rd generation. I expect it and just start another save when wacky stuff happens. My Sims and houses are on the gallery so they are safe. I find it disappointing that I can't get settled in with one save.

"AnnLee87;c-17339492" wrote:
The game has always wigged out for me at about the 3rd generation. I expect it and just start another save when wacky stuff happens. My Sims and houses are on the gallery so they are safe. I find it disappointing that I can't get settled in with one save.

Seriously, I haven't experienced that problem. I do find that "Save As" is one way to help avoid such corruption of files. (Learned this way back in Sims3.) I have played Pinstar's Legacy Challenge, which requires you get all the way to the tenth generation. Your heir is not allowed to move out of the legacy house, either, so it isn't a matter of moving Sims around to other lots. I think I may have had to re-download the Legacy lot a couple of time, however, if memory serves. The family I'm playing at the moment is ground Zero, if you will. First generation. I am hoping to expand this to more generations, though. I keep running into snags. Yesterday, I totally started over. I decided to select a skilled copy of my family from My Library (which helps dramatically in cutting the set-up time). I even checked Erik's traits. No Reaper's Scythe as a Trait, phew! I began play in the Spring, with the notion I would have them all, their baby brother included, quit school for the length of Summer. This would give my potential celebrity the time he needs to work on earning those all-important stars of fame. And to write songs, etc. . I don't know what made me check his traits again. Maybe my Guardian Angel, who knows? But I did and to my horror suddenly he had that Scythe Trait. Since the language, beyond the word trait, didn't show up, I'm confounded as to what it actually means.

So, yesterday, I drew in a deep breath and decided I would take the entire family into cas.fulleditmode (I had written down Erik's Skills and level for each of them prior) and I substituted Erik for himself, using his full name of Erik James Cantrell. Then I aged the YA (created to be my Founder for the Legacy Challenge back in 2014), to teen, changed his hair and his wardrobe and made sure he had the appropriate family ties. I put them back into the game, purchased a text book for him and sat him down to do his homework. I checked his traits, just to be certain, so far, so good. No Scythe Trait. Time ran out for my gaming session, as it was growing late and I had to get dinner started. I will check on him again today to make certain that eerie trait hasn't attached itself to him again.

Thing is, I no longer have that mod in my game. And, yes, I always delete the localthumbcache.package before I play. Every. Single. Time. It's totally weird, but if it persists I will uninstall and re-install my game all over again just to be certain I've rid it of any legacy bits from that mod. Then I will take a copy of the lone Erik, remake his parents from him, and generate his siblings from them using the DNA icon. This has got to stop.

:D :D :D wow. I wish I could help but I've never heard of a problem like this. You scare me because I use mods. I had a corrupted save from bad cc or mods once but nothing strange like this. I was able to download my family from the gallery in a new save and everything was normal again. That's why I try hard to keep my mods to the absolute minimum and just deal with a lot of annoyances sims have. And I believe I know what mod you are referring to but I guess we cant talk about it lol :D I'm staying away from it. :#

Have you tried resetting your entire Sims4 folder before downloading a new copy of your sims?

Also, before adding your saves folder back to your fresh Sims4 folder check to be sure this mod doesn’t create its own folder within your saves folder, some mods do. If there is one you need to delete it, because those are settings particular to the mod that are attached to your saves.

Yeah, I do have to say I keep my mods and cc to a bare minimum. I use MCCC and Road to Fame, Khitsule's Pointy Ears and that's pretty much it. I do have roBurky's Meaningful Stories in place at the moment, but it worked just fine with the others. At least, it knows how to place nice. LOL The only thing that wasn't quite working well was that other mod. This after I removed the latest installed mods, one at a time, to see which one was the culprit. I had a total of five mods, maximum. (Compared to the 20+ NRaas, Industries mods I needed just to stabilize Sims3).

Unfortunately, I didn't get too far into gameplay this morning, before that creepy trait showed up. I was attempting to set the Road to Fame mod, as it allows you to enable or disable certain aspects of it. I can turn off, for instance, Erik's reaction to other celebrities. I know that totally bugs some players. Sounds as if Sacrificial has given that some heed and made a way for us to turn it off. Some of the interactions are a bit obscure. I'm guessing English isn't his first language. I'm thinking I'm allowing something, only to discover when I check his traits, that I've inadvertently excluded Erik from what I wanted for him. Face/palm. It was in doing this check that I saw the dreaded Reaper's Scythe. Before I scrap this game save I will cheat him up just to see if he can hold a live concert, being a teen. If he can I will have to realize whatever the trait may mean, it's not necessarily a bad thing as I suspected. If he can't, I'll throw out the save entirely, start another brand new save using the lone Erik to create his parents, and from there create his siblings from their parents. I may just see what happens before I do all of that, if I adjust the RTF interactions on a sibling or two, just for fun. That might tell me a great deal.

"Pamtastic72;c-17339954" wrote:
Have you tried resetting your entire Sims4 folder before downloading a new copy of your sims?

Also, before adding your saves folder back to your fresh Sims4 folder check to be sure this mod doesn’t create its own folder within your saves folder, some mods do. If there is one you need to delete it, because those are settings particular to the mod that are attached to your saves.

I will likely go ahead and do the uninstall/re-install thing one. more.time. Before I put a new save in place. To the best of my knowledge, and I will doublecheck the brand new saves folder (I totally deleted the other one) to see if there is any craziness going on. But, as I noticed just today, that' Reaper Trait showed up once I set Road to Fame the way I wanted it. :open_mouth: Face/palm.