All of my households disappeared
Hello there! Recently I had to do a factory reset of my laptop and everything was backed up on OneDrive, including TS4 files. Yesterday I decided to reinstall the game and everything seemed normal ...
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@BlueberryCZ I don't expect this to make the households come back. You'll need to load an earlier version of your save for that, and that will only help if you didn't save over it too many times. The goal here is that when you do have a version with your Sims in it, it doesn't happen again.
Aaalright. I probably have bad luck, because the earliest save is also already messed up.
What can I do to be able to play? I thought it was possible to import the Sims (just like people import Sims from the internet) and I'd just have to accept the fact that all of their lore is gone. Unfortunately, all townies are gone too, so this is not an option, right? :/
@BlueberryCZ If you don't have a recoverable save with your Sims in it (and do test that with an empty Mods folder!), you'll be starting at "New" in the Main Menu. If you have Tray versions of your Sims, you can import them from your Library. Premade Sims will be regenerate at starting levels.
It's really frustrating to have to start over for sure ☹️ I just did it in '23 after many years with a save that corrupted beyond where I felt like actually dealing with the process of recovering it. I took a few of my favourite households from my library into a new save instead, and I'm actually playing a premade house for different in it right now.
I do advise keeping a regular folder backup so you can go more than 5 saves back. For most cases, that's enough to recover pretty fully from. In others, it's enough to help you recover more content to import into your next new save.
Okay, thank you sosomuch! I'm gonna have to accept the loss haha.
Alsooo, do you think it's possible to export my houses into the new save?
@BlueberryCZ If the old save loads the World Map, yes! You do, though, have to go to the World map, load each build you want in Build/Buy, then save it to the Library from there. Placing them from the Library onto the map in the new save is faster, thankfully.
