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gpbfurlanetto
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22 days ago

Game save files not on saves folder?

Had to wipe my Mac hard drive and now I can't find 5+ years' worth of progress saves. They should be in the saves folder in The Sims 4 folder which I have backed up on My Passport for Mac, and they are, but I tried importing the saves in there into the new folder and realized only one of the first ever families created when first getting the game were in there. It's as if the following saves ended up somewhere else, but I don't know where. I've been through every folder and copied all the files from the backup to the computer. Anyone have Amy ideas? Pls pls pls help!

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    22 days ago

    gpbfurlanetto​ 

    You must make sure that all the individual save files are in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves. Saves that should load will always be in the same formatted file name: Slot_XXXXXXXX.save where the eight Xs are a mixture of numbers and sometimes letters. The files ending .ver are backups of the corresponding saves. Any save files which have appended numbers, for example Slot_XXXXXXXX.save 2, will not load.

    If you'd like me to check your files, open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the list command below then hit Enter/Return, it will return a list of all files  and folders in your saves folder. Copy and paste the results here.

    ls -1 ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts/The\ Sims\ 4/saves

     

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