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How did you search for the saves? Using Spotlight/Finder search or using Terminal? If Terminal, what was the command you entered?
I used Finder! That was how I found a few mods saved to my downloads folder (but not all of them) and the old saves from last year that I'd backed up onto my external hard drive. Typing in the file names of the mods in Finder and "Slot_" for the saves pulled up only the files from my downloads and hard drive.
I don't think I mentioned that all my documents are stored in the cloud, but I had changed my Origin settings to source the game library from the correct folder, and still nothing came up. I tried moving everything off of iCloud but that didn't retrieve the saves either.
How would I use Terminal for this?
- Bluebellflora2 years agoHero+
Here you go 🙂 https://bluebellflora.com/2021/10/17/using-terminal-to-locate-your-sims-4-files-and-folders/
- 2 years ago
Thank you so much!
I've tried each of the commands in Terminal and it still doesn't seem to be working. I changed "The Sims 4" to "Les Sims 4" because my game is in French. It didn't pull up anything.
I tried searching using "Slot_" to find the save files, and it only pulled up the save files I had already found on my hard drive, no new ones.
I looked up how to unhide all files and they have now been unhidden. I tried the command again and still nothing.
I also tried substituting "The Sims 4" in the command with "Electronic Arts" and "Library" and didn't find anything.
I would ask Chat GBT but I'm not even sure what to tell it.
- Bluebellflora2 years agoHero+@gmsi19fn8yoi
Thanks 🙂 In point 3 you said you deleted the EA folder. That would have contained the TS4 folder which has saves etc in it. The only way to get it back would be if you have a backup from before you trashed it.