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StrangeRy404
3 years ago
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Archeological Collectables missing after moving houses

I apologise if this is the wrong discussion board to ask this in, but anyway. My Sim is an archeologist and has collected many things from the Jungle Adventure world. All those things were sitting...
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    CGrant56
    3 years ago

    @StrangeRy404 

    You can try recovering an earlier save from before you moved to get the objects back.  Hopefully, you haven't saved more than 5 times since you moved the sim.  Just use the load button on the main menu and select your last save and click on the recover button next to the delete button.  Then select one of the save versions to recover.  It will create a new save that you then load as usual, and you can check if the objects are there.  If they are, play on.  If not, repeat the process using another version.  Keep going until you find a save with the items still in it or you run out of saves to try.  Recover can be a game saver at times.  See the pic below for the location of the recover button.

    After finding your items, you can try to move again.  This time, try setting all the collectibles out on the floor so they go into the household inventory when you keep the furniture.  I do that for pretty much everything except the harvestables.  Everything else is either on the floor, a surface or on the walls.  I haven't lost anything that way where I have lost things when moving that were in the sim's inventory.

    Hope this helps.

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CGrant56
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3 years ago

@StrangeRy404 

You can try recovering an earlier save from before you moved to get the objects back.  Hopefully, you haven't saved more than 5 times since you moved the sim.  Just use the load button on the main menu and select your last save and click on the recover button next to the delete button.  Then select one of the save versions to recover.  It will create a new save that you then load as usual, and you can check if the objects are there.  If they are, play on.  If not, repeat the process using another version.  Keep going until you find a save with the items still in it or you run out of saves to try.  Recover can be a game saver at times.  See the pic below for the location of the recover button.

After finding your items, you can try to move again.  This time, try setting all the collectibles out on the floor so they go into the household inventory when you keep the furniture.  I do that for pretty much everything except the harvestables.  Everything else is either on the floor, a surface or on the walls.  I haven't lost anything that way where I have lost things when moving that were in the sim's inventory.

Hope this helps.

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    StrangeRy404
    3 years ago

    I tried your suggestion and it worked perfectly! 
    Unfortunately I lost a week in the game (I have to save more) but I much prefer it to losing all my collectables and, more importantly, my dog’s urn. 
    I considered getting and old save, but thought I had to manually create save files to do so, which I hadn’t done.

    Ironically, I put all the collectables into my household inventory out of fear that I would lose them in the move, so that sort of backfired.

    Anyway, thank you so much!! Your reply was very helpful! :D

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