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6 years ago

Lost Saved Files

Hi! I recently bought upgraded to a new Macbook Pro 2020 from a Macbook Pro 2013. I embarked looking to transfer my saved files from my old mac to my new but I could not find my saved files ANYWHER...

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Bluebellflora

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6 years ago

@kqyshan

Have you looked in Documents > Electronic Arts? The Electronic Arts folder is hidden from a Spotlight search on your Mac if it is in the Documents folder, it will never find it if it is in the correct location.

kqyshan
6 years ago
@Bluebellflora Hi!
Yes I've looked there and even in my iCloud. It's all empty... ):
More info if it helps,
1. My old macbook is on El Capitan so I am unable to uncheck the desktop option in iCloud, it's not available.

2. Under documents > electronic arts> the sims 4 > saves, the saves folder is empty
The last time i played, was perhaps a couple of weeks ago and it was still fine. I do regular updates when Origin prompts to.
I prefer not to update my old mac as i worry it would slow down the mac too much since it's pretty old.
I only transferred particular things over to my new mac, music, photos, videos. I didnt touch my applications or Sims during the manual transfer.
- Bluebellflora
  Hero+
  6 years ago
  @kqyshan
  
  Ok. Let's search properly in Terminal. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:
  
  find ~ -type d -name "*saves*" 2>/dev/null
  
  It may take a little while to return the results. When it's done and shows the command prompt again please copy and paste the results and post them here.
  - kqyshan
    6 years ago
    @Bluebellflora
    Last login: Sun Jun 28 21:56:45 on ttys000
    Shans-MBP:~ khooqiyingshan$ find ~ -type d -name "*saves*" 2>/dev/null
    /Users/khooqiyingshan/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves
    /Users/khooqiyingshan/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves
    Shans-MBP:~ khooqiyingshan$