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Kanney13
4 years ago
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I think I lost everything..?

Alright so I've been playing the Sims for awhile, not super frequently, but when I get a chance yk? Tonight I was trying to load it up, but whenever origin looked like it was booting it up, it would exit to my desktop and nothing would happen. I looked up how to fix that (after restarting my computer twice), and they suggested repairing my game files. Did that, didn't fix anything, so another forum said to put my sims 4 folder on my desktop, and that seemed to fix it!! Loaded the game up, relief washed over me, and then dread. None of my saved files were showing up, no notification about my pages of cc showed up. I've spend the last hour trying to find out where the * it disappeared to, but i can't find anything. I've spend years accumulation the cc and mods i have downloaded, and spend hours pouring it into different families. I will be destroyed if I've lost everything, I'm willing to try anything to find it! Please help ☹️( 

  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    4 years ago

    @Kanney13 

    You already know where it went. You said yourself that you moved it to your desktop.

    You can move everything in the saves folder back to the new saves folder. As for your CC/Mods add that back a little at a time while testing the game. Remove those that caused the issue.

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    4 years ago

    @Kanney13 

    You already know where it went. You said yourself that you moved it to your desktop.

    You can move everything in the saves folder back to the new saves folder. As for your CC/Mods add that back a little at a time while testing the game. Remove those that caused the issue.

  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    What @jpkarlsen said.  Your saves are in a subdirectory of the folder you moved to your desktop, called "saves."  If you drag those files to the new documents\electronic arts\the sims 4\saves folder, your saves will be back!

  • Kanney13's avatar
    Kanney13
    4 years ago

    I could kiss you I'm so happy, thank you. Feel like an idiot for resorting to this, but seriously, thank you so much !!

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