im also having issues after updating to high sierra on my mac. i was clearing out space because my mac was getting full, i now have 30 GB of free space on my laptop. after i did the update i tried opening the sims to see it didn’t show load game. i then checked in my finder and my save files were all gone and so was my cc and mods. i thought maybe i had thrown them away on accident because i had just deleted documents. so i spent hours using data recovery software to try and get my old files back. which it did give me back some save files a bit of cc but they were much older versions from 2017-2019. none from 2020-now. i’ve been at this for hours and nothing i do seems to be working. i did everything that was posted on the first page except the last step, because i now cannot find the documents>sims 4 folder where it usually is. if i search sims 4 it shows several different folder (about 4). if anyone can help i would be super grateful, i don’t want to lose all my stuff! 😭
all the folders except for one only had 1 mod in them. no save files or anything else. there is one with about 3 mods in it and some saves but none with everything in it. also my game keeps reinstalling all my packs when i start it up. my game says it’s repairing right now. which i’ve tried already and it didn’t help
A Spotlight/Finder search does not find the Sims 4 folder when it is in the correct location in Documents > Electronic Arts because it is hidden. No idea why, this is something between EA and Apple. Please open Terminal and copy and paste the following search 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. This is a thorough search of your Mac user account and will show us all directories with The Sims 4 in the title.
