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joshispeeta
3 years ago
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Game indefinitely freezes on save screen

This is a new issue for me, the game always ran smoothly on my Mac. Now for the past two days the game won't save properly anymore after I started a new game. Sometimes it will save (my household was...
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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    3 years ago
    @joshispeeta

    It's most probably Mod related, probably conflicting or out of date Mods. You need to move out your Mods folder, trash the localthumbcache.package file then load up your game and see if it will save. This will cause a problem though if your save depends on any Mods or CC as it will be saved without them.
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gcmayson
2 years ago

In my saves folder, a new folder called “scratch” was created at the same time I started building. Is there any way I can use this to recover my progress?

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Bluebellflora
Hero+
2 years ago
@gcmayson

No, there is no way to recover from a frozen screen. You could maybe recover a backup save.

The scratch folder is created in your saves folder when you launch the game and automatically removed when you quit the game. When the game crashes/freezes the scratch folder is typically not removed because the game is non-responsive but should be trashed manually.

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