The only location the game will look at for your user data is Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. Let's do a proper search to find all the Sims 4 folders you have:
Open Terminal and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:
find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 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.
Bit concerned that you've renamed your save files. Why have you done that and what have you renamed them to? This should only be done if you're restoring a backup manually.
I just changed the “.ver1” at the end of the files because google said that apparently it helps
and it did help, but like I said only with one file
I haven’t done the search thing you told me yet, but after I did that, what am I supposed to do with the multiple save files? How does the game recognize them again?
Alright, I did what you told me to do and this was the result:
Last login: Sat Apr 23 21:42:45 on console
MacBook-Air:~ psychogirl$ find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Desktop/The Sims 4 Packs
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Desktop/The Sims 4.app
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Desktop/The Sims 4.app/Contents/Resources/The Sims 4.app
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Desktop/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Documents/The Sims 4 Packs
/Users/psycholesbo/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Desktop/The Sims 4 Packs
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Desktop/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/The Sims 4 Packs
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive)/Desktop/The Sims 4 Packs
/Users/psycholesbo/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
MacBook-Air:~ psychogirl$
These are all the Sims 4 folders you have which may contain saves in the Saves folder:
Current or previous folders stored in iCloud:
/Users/psycholesbo/iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1/Desktop/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Desktop/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
Sims 4 folders separate to iCloud:
/Users/psycholesbo/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
/Users/psycholesbo/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
That last one in bold is where the game will load your data from such as saves, mods etc. It will not look in the other locations. That is the Sims 4 folder located in the Electronic Arts folder located in your user Documents folder. Do you have any saves in there? If so, please open Terminal again and copy and paste the following command then hit enter:
cd Documents/Electronic\ Arts/The\ Sims\ 4/saves
After hitting enter, copy and paste this list command then hit enter:
ls
You should now see a list of the contents of that saves folder in the Terminal window. Please copy and paste it here. I'm asking for this to check save file names that the game is currently trying to load.
I'm asking you to use Terminal to produce these results because it is the most accurate method and makes sure we are in the correct location. You have so many Sims 4 folders that it would be easy to open the wrong one and that would be even more confusing 🙂
One other question, are you sure iCloud Drive is now disabled in System Preferences?
