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melynmock
4 years ago

Erasing suggested household in Scenarios erased all saves

Hi, I am in complete shock, I believed years of Sims saves have been erased in less than 1 minute. I was playing with my game and decided to try the new feature. I go to "play Scenarios". It gives ...
Bluebellflora's avatar
Bluebellflora
Hero+
4 years ago

@melynmock 

Please open Terminal and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:

find ~ -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null

After a little while it will return the results of the search. Please copy and paste the results in a post here.

  • melynmock's avatar
    melynmock
    4 years ago

    Hi,

    This is what I have which I feel it didn't find any file. What I suspected 😢

    • Bluebellflora's avatar
      Bluebellflora
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      4 years ago

      @melynmock 

      No it didn't but it only looked in your Mac user account. Try this to search the whole drive:

      find / -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null
      • melynmock's avatar
        melynmock
        4 years ago

        Hi,

        Well I am getting desperate as it doesn't look like it found something. I don't understand how it could have been so easy to erase the whole game without really letting me know... It didn't say your whole game will be erased. I though is would maybe erase the family not the entire save file!!!!

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