You need to change your preferences in System Preferences to save your game to your Documents folder located on your hard drive. I turned off saving to iCloud and everything now saves correctly to my Mac's hard drive. Once you change this, start up your game and allow a new Sims 4 folder to generate on your hard drive and then you can move your saved games from the Cloud to your computer. And yes, saving to the Cloud or another hard drive does slow down the response time of the game and can cause problems like corrupted game files much faster than if it is saved on your computer directly.
This just happened to me, May 2024. I don't understand. I added a couple of new mods, which are simple. I think the game updated and I go in there and hundreds of hours of gameplay is totally gone. I looked through your threads and haven't find anything that helped.
1. I have an older Mac.
2. I tried hitting "repair" didn't work.
3. I looked in my save folders, there are several saves there (up to 4?)
4. I do not have One Look.
5. I deleted the recently added mods to no avail.
6. I checked the Icloud settings, my Mac does not save Sims data to iCloud.
7. I checked how much space my Mac has, it has 93 gigs of space. Plenty.
8. I looked at the version, it ends in 12 something, not Legacy Version.
9. I am completely lost. Am I screwed?
