All CAS CC

@Flamerooie I'm so sorry.

Before doing additional 'stuff', would you be willing to share screenshots of your other saves (the list of recovery saves that shows dates for each option)? Please open Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves and take a screenshot of the contents of that folder. Make sure the modified dates are showing.

There are a few of other things you could check on and try/do...

1. When you say the "CAS cc is present and functioning right in the game", do you mean that it's enabled in options, and if you put the CC on Sims in CAS now it shows and behaves properly in the live game?
2. With that in mind... since the game automatically disables your Mods/CC with a patch/update, did you go back into options and re-enable Mods/CC – re-tick the box(es) for them – in options?
3. After you tried recovering to your old saves, did you save the game and re-enter to see if the CC was present then?

For future reference, or if it's still relevant here, if you open a save and see the CC is stripped from the Sims, you can exit without saving and address it in the above manners. The missing content on the Sims will not be permanent until you've saved without the CC enabled.

Unfortunately, if your Mods/CC were reenabled after the patch/update, and if you then opened saved each of your old game saves, including your recover options of saves so all of the saves have been permanently saved with the content missing, this would be permanently set.

If all else fails, rather than abandon your game, you may want to try some creative way/s of tackling the issue. You could try things like:

• Make sure your CC is reenabled and updated, then...
• Take your favorite save and delete the households with missing content that you don't want to bother with. Then work your way through your favorite/core households and re-dress them all in one basic outfit in all categories (for efficiency) and remove any other messed up outfits.

I've faced some seriously overwhelming nightmare losses of 'virtual content'. (You don't want to go down that rabbit hole with me! 😓 I work in web design and development, and virtual losses can be absolutely devastating and unrecoverable at times.) I'm obsessed now with keeping external backups. Let's just say I've had situations where I had to dig back in for myself or a client and spend weeks or months rebuilding &/or recovering content. It's a harsh reality of the virtual world.