Here's the screenshot of the files in the Tray--and I triple checked, my saves are being read from the correct Sims 4 folder, so I would assume the game would read the Tray in the same Sims 4 folder, right?
I removed all of the files from the Tray and put them into a different folder, then moved sets of files with similar names back into the Tray in groups of 5-10 to see if they would work if there were fewer files in the Tray. I assumed files with similar names (files starting with 0x00000000!0x0c85...) were corresponding files, is there a different/better way to tell which files correspond with each other? I also tried to put half of the files back (about 250 files) and still nothing was showing up in my Library. Unfortunately I don't think I have a backup ☹️
@natalie111127
Yes. The only way to successfully find a specific Lot/Household/Room in the Tray folder is to sort by date modified in Finder. All files for a specific item will have the exact same date and time. But that is probably too late now because you’ve been moving files around so much.
Your Sims 4 folder needs to be directly in your Documents folder, not in iCloud Drive. This thread explains further https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Saves-CC-Mods-or-Library-items-disappeared/td-p/10242133
Luckily everything still has a date modified timestamp since moving the file doesn't count as modifying it. I'll try taking everything off iCloud Drive later when I can find my external hard drive, I'm just confused why it would suddenly not allow me to access my Lots/Households/Rooms now since as far as I know the files in the Tray have always been in iCloud Drive because everything on my computer tries to automatically upload to iCloud Drive even if I don't want it to...
