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 a...
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Enter this command in Terminal:
find / -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/nullIt will take a while. Once the command prompt reappears it's finished.
So like, the save files are on iCloud and I just c&p them? Is there a way the game can access them from iCloud so they don't take up so much space, and if not, is there a safe way to kind of sort out what's relevant from what I can just keep on iCloud?
p.s., thank u so much for helping out!
These saves are on the Desktop in folders you have created. The game doesn't look there so they are being ignored:
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/gpbfurlanetto/Desktop/other/stuff/The Sims 4./saves/Slot_00000002.save /System/Volumes/Data/Users/gpbfurlanetto/Desktop/other/stuff/The Sims 4./saves/Slot_00000001.saveIs there a way the game can access them from iCloud so they don't take up so much space
No. The game only reads your user data from the Sims 4 folder inside an Electronic Arts folder in the Documents folder:
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/gpbfurlanetto/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4If the game cannot find a Sims 4 folder it will create a new one. And if you keep moving out that newly created Sims 4 folder it will keep creating a new one each time you launch the game. It cannot read data from iCloud.
You can get a decent external drive and play from that by creating a symlink. Or you can try and free up space on your Mac and keep the data in the Documents folder.
Gotcha. But these two files you mentioned c&p'd are a couple new ones I created after everything ws wiped out. What I'm trying to understand still is if there's a way I can transfer or copy the old ones from iCloud, which is where I understand they ended up. I tried c&ping them all into the actual computer folder, but they didn't show up on the game itself. Is there a way I can run the game still using them? If so, am I just copying the ones titled "saves/Slot_00000002.save" from iCloud or...?
Yes, you c/p them from iCloud into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves. But if you're running out of space that won't be possible.
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