I Lost At Least 2 Saves
Hi, I just played my one game save last night only to discover that it had gone back at least 2 saves w/no option to go back to where I was before. First of all, my game did crash, but I know I didn'...
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@Sonshine77 A power outage shouldn't affect computers that are shut down, but the way they shut down can leave them a bit vulnerable even if the risk is low. Depending on your settings, a shutdown can write the data from that session to the drive and then read it when starting up again, thereby saving a little time, rather than restarting from scratch. That's why restarting your computer, as in, selecting Restart from the power menu, is an essential part of troubleshooting. It forces Windows to load everything anew rather than saving some data.
I do think it's more likely that something else is going on though, especially because I've seen other reports of progress reverting in existing saves. Are the entire save files gone, or just progress in the saves while the files are intact? That's one reason why I asked about "save as": that would make it easier to tell whether the files were disappearing or just some of the progress of your saves.
If only some progress is disappearing, it would be helpful to know exactly what stays the same and what reverts, for example that new business you built is gone but it's still sim-Thursday like it was supposed to be, and (as you've said) the magic tree is sealed even though you know you opened it a sim-week ago. If you could make at least a partial list—no need to be completely thorough, just whatever you notice or can check easily—that would be great.
Boy, I don't know! I believe everything was lost for several saves. Right now though, my house is frozen. I just moved them in to a new house. I'll try restarting my comp to see if it works. Otherwise. I'm going to try evicting them (move out first, then evict if that doesn't work).
I just rebooted the comp and the house is unfrozen, but lagged. Is there any kind of cache files to clear?
On this one, I tried going back to previous saves (I saved the file "slot.00000002.save" to a place on my desktop and renamed "slot.00000002.ver 0- 4" to just .save), but it didn't matter which file I chose, it was always the current one regardless of what the save date on it was. Is there no way to recover and older save or is my game totally messed up?
@Sonshine77 That is strange indeed. Do you use OneDrive? If so, are there any Sims-related files in OneDrive's Documents folder? How about a third-party antivirus (and which one)?
Please also load this save, make one obvious change, use "save as" to rename the save, quit, restart your computer, load the game, and let me know whether that change is still present in the new save.
