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CelticKnot
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25 days ago

Help in reading Terminal

Hi. First time asking for help or using a Forum. I am playing Sims 4 on a MacBook Air, 16GB memory, Apple M3 chip, Tahoe 26.0.1. A week or so ago, I added multiple new packs, etc. I spent days playing mostly in build mode. Several days ago, I rejoined a game I had spent hours playing already. The Sims family was there, but their lot was empty.  I was unable to pull up the dwelling and all its revisions anywhere. It had taken many hours and many successful saves to almost finish the build.  I left the game to restart hoping to find an older saved version. The screen opened on the EA launch page. Sims 4 would not launch no matter how often I tried. I repaired everything over and over. No launch. I spent 2 complete days freeing up space on my laptop thinking there was not enough to launch the game. No game. Tahoe was uploaded yesterday. Not the issue.

I have never installed or used mods. I looked at some of the issues others have for one similar to mine. There were several helpful suggestions. I checked my terminal, added a recommended line at the prompt, and saw something odd in what came up. My problem now is: what does it mean, is this possibly the problem, and what do I do to fix it? See the attached screenshot.

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  • CelticKnot​ 

    What did you find odd in the Terminal output? I can help you try and understand but it all looks normal to me.

    ⬆️ These are all in iCloud where the game will not find them to load. 00000001.save is a save file. The 00000001.save.ver2 is a backup file of that first save. 00000002.save.ver0 and 00000002.save.ver1 are backups of a non-existent 00000002.save file. You can remove the .verX from the backups so the file ends .save and move them into your Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves folder.

    ⬆️ The highlighted saves are the only save files that should load, the rest are all backups but it doesn't look like your Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder is in the correct location. Can you please copy/paste the entire file path from one of those lines? You've blacked out private info which I understand but please just replace your name with USER or something.  It looks like you have a Documents folder within the Documents folder and the game will not see this.