Hi,
I've been searching for solutions to my issue for days but was unable to find anything that could help me. I allowed my documents and files to be stored in iCloud a few days ago. When I attempted to move them back onto my local drive, several of my mods, saves, and tray files disappeared during the migration process for some reason. There are still mods, saves, and tray files in my game up until march-may 2024, but everything after that has seemed to have disappeared. I've looked everywhere on my mac, ,including the iCloud drive, and even tried data recovery but I'm still unable to find them. I turned off optimization and freed storage as well. If there's anything you could recconemend to help me i'd greatly appreaciate it.
Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following search command then hit Enter/Return:
find ~ -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null
If prompted to allow Terminal access to various locations on your Mac and drives, click Allow. After a little while it will return the results of the search. You'll know when it's finished searching because the command prompt will reappear. Please copy and paste the results in a post here..
Okay! I did this earlier and it only showed me the save files currently in my game, not the missing ones. Here are the results:
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000018.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001b.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001b.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000019.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver4
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save 3.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver3
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000019.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001b.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver2
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000019.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver2
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000018.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver3
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save 2.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000017.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000017.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000011.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000016.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000011.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001a.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000011.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver2
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000016.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000016.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001a.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver1
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save.ver2
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver0
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000006.save
/Users/jeremyhoward/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000001a.save.ver0
jeremyhoward@Jeremys-MacBook-Air ~ %
Thanks. Yep, you only have saves in the Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves folder. Do you not have some sort of iCloud archive folder? If not then maybe you opted to not keep a local copy so the saves you want to load are all in the cloud. You could try a wider search which will search your entire Mac, not just your user account:
find / -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null
That search takes a lot longer but it would be worth doing.
