My Sims 4 library disappeared and I don't know how to get it back
HI! So, I recently noticed last week that my entire library history disappeared. My guess is I either deleted it by accident or it is because of a mod. I do use Mods/CC and when I first noticed it, I had just added more content but since I was getting errors I went through and deleted stuff and many sites said to delete the localthumbcache.package and the avatarcache.package. I noticed when I saved a house from the gallery, logged off my laptop, then came back the next day after doing all the deleting and stuff to fix the errors.
I do however have all of my households and build still in my save files, and I can still play them, but its only my library when I go to the gallery that's empty except the builds and households that are automatically there when you start a new save file.
@alltimejess1849 Right, so your Sims 4 content was moved only to Microsoft OneDrive's cloud storage, with no copy left on your hard drive. When you signed back into your Microsoft account, it synced your data again.
I agree with the other people who say your OneDrive account shouldn't be allowed to affect your Sims games, and there's a simple way to make sure you don't lose the data again. Before you do anything else, make a copy of the entire Sims 4 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts and put it in your Downloads folder, which OneDrive doesn't touch. Then sign out of your Microsoft account again, or else just tell OneDrive not to sync the contents of Documents:
You may have to pause syncing and/or cancel the current sync first:
Once that's done, the original Sims 4 folder will probably have been removed, but that's fine, you can just move the copy you made back to Documents\Electronic Arts and pick up where you left off.
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