I opened the game the other day and one of my saves seems to be corrupted. All of my builds are there but no sims, and household manager is completely empty.
I have already:
removed mods
recovered older saves
repaired my game
I had not backed up my saves before whatever happened, but I have backed them up since then. I really hope there is a solution for this - have been with these families for years.
If you saved while it was like this then the change is permanent and you need to start over.
I have not saved since any of this happened.
I just had this happen to me yesterday. Like you, all my builds and homes are still there, but all families are missing, including the default ones. Not a single Sim is in the Household Manager.
I've turned off CC and removed mods, but no luck.
@Galbi4Life Try recovering a backup copy of this save:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/recover-backup-save-game/
I had tried that as well, but the only backups were from earlier that night (when households were already gone) or from February 1.
@Galbi4Life Then I'm sorry to say, you might have to go all the way back to February 1. You could however check OneDrive for any copies of Sims 4 saves. Even if you never use it, OneDrive might have synced some data, and maybe you'll get lucky.
I think I am just going to start over. I saved all my houses and I will just start a new file and new families/storylines I guess. It sucks but it’s just a game, too.
I appreciate you trying to help!
@Galbi4Lifeand @LukeyLuSims I wonder if you may have experienced the issue in the below thread.
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-and-Mod-CC-Issues/MOD-RELATED-Sims-disappeared-from-household-Blue-flashing-square/m-p/8428174/highlight/true#M9460
If so, you will probably want to test all of your Mods / CC to make sure there's nothing in there that may cause the issue to happen again. Please at least read the first post, if not the entire thread. If you do test your mods and find one that causes your households to disappear, please consider sharing that information in a reply in the thread.
