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jadaadams2000
3 years ago

How Can I Restore My Progress (Old Games) In My Sims 4 Game?

While I was playing the Sims 4 game (on my Mac laptop) with MODS & Scripts, the loading screen started to go extremely slow after downloading new Trays & Packages which was ALOT to download. Then I s...
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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago
@jadaadams2000

You're on a Mac, not Windows. They are not the same.

All of your saves, mods, and user data needs to be in User > Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 for the game to try and load it. If it isn't it will create a new Sims 4 folder and create new files.

I think you're saying you moved the Sims 4 folder to the desktop and then did a bunch of other stuff and now nothing is loading. It sounds like you've moved important files to differing locations. Please read this and see if you can figure out where the files are you need to move back into the correct location https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Sims-4-Mac-Help-Guides-and-Troubleshooting/m-p/4612398#M163
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jadaadams2000
3 years ago

Hi and Thank you so much! I think I was too late to do what the article you sent for me regarding the steps. I just decided to use the new Sims 4 folder that created itself with new files,  and I've already redownloaded a few old Mods I've had before so far. 

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    Bluebellflora
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    3 years ago
    @jadaadams2000

    Did you trash the save files and empty the bin? If not they will still be on your Mac and can be moved into the new Sims 4 > saves folder 🙂
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      jadaadams2000
      3 years ago

      Hi, I deleted it or the Sims 4 game removed the save file itself when the new Sims 4 Folder was created. Everything got deleted on the old Sims 4 folder, and it's not even in the "Trash" on my Mac. Thank you for your help and responding back to my question/post 🙂

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        Bluebellflora
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        3 years ago

        @jadaadams2000 

        The game doesn't remove any saves from the Sims 4 folder. Try a full search of your Mac using Terminal. Open Terminal, copy/paste the following command then hit Enter:

        Please open Terminal and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:

        find / -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null

        After a little while it will return the results of the search. Please copy and paste the results in a post here.

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