I updated my mac, and my households got deleted

@tinateen122  Leave those alone for now.  They can just sit in their subfolders in the Sims 4 User Data folder on your desktop.  They can't interfere from there.

@tinateen122  Yes, exactly.  First, make sure that there's nothing inside your Electronic Arts folder in Documents.  Then you can restart your computer, then launch the game.  Don't move anything around after you restart.

@tinateen122  Are there now two folders labeled Electronic Arts?  Which one has a TS4 folder in it?  And I hope the other one is empty.  If it is, you can trash the empty EA folder and keep the new one.

@tinateen122  Now you need to get rid of the EA folder that's empty.  So there will be only one Electronic Arts folder within Documents.  And just to check, when you relaunched the game, did the new save that you'd just made appear for you to load?  Did it load properly?  Please make sure.  You don't have to play it again, once you know it's loaded properly.

@tinateen122  Including the save?  Good.  You have the basic setup you need.

Now, go into the new TS4 folder that you've been using, and remove the entire saves folder.  Not the one save you just created, but the whole folder.  You can put it in the trash, but you don't have to empty the trash just yet.  Go into your Sims 4 User Data folder on your desktop, into Sims 4 data 1.  Inside, there's your original TS4 folder, right?  And inside are your saves, or at least most of them?  Drag the entire Saves folder (not the individual saves, the whole folder) into the new TS4 folder, the one in Documents.  It should not be in any subfolder within TS4.  So the path that you see when you highlight the saves folder you just moved (remember command-i that Bluebellflora explained) should read:

Macintosh HD>Users>(your name)>Documents>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4

If this is what you see, and you can post a screenshot if you'd like, then you're ready to launch the game again.  You should see your old saves listed.  Test one of them to find out whether you can load and play it properly, then post back.

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Here is my saves file when I highlighted it. Looks right to me> Now, do I have to restart my mac again to get my old households?

@tinateen122  I'm so glad to hear that.  (Sorry, I got caught up in something for a minute.)  Now, you'll want to test each save to make sure it's working.

@tinateen122  You test each save by loading and playing with it.  If you only have the one family that you just recovered, you've done what you needed to do.  But if there are other households, try loading them as well.  You're just making sure that every save is intact and playable.

Once you've tested all your saves, we can move on to the other contents of the user data folder.

@tinateen122  Sounds good.  I hope everything continues to work, but remember that some of your mods might be outdated.  If a batch of them won't load, it doesn't mean that your game is broken, just a mod.

Feel free to post back here with any other questions, and good luck.