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Bluebellflora
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5 years ago

[READ FIRST] Saves, CC/Mods or Library items disappeared? iCloud issues

ISSUE Saves One minute your game is working fine. The next you go to play and the Load Game button has disappeared, there seems to be no way to play an existing save. CC/Mods Newly added ...
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Bluebellflora
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2 months ago

MrianB​ 

I've merged your post into the master iCloud thread. Please see the opening post for further instruction.

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MrianB
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2 months ago

Hello, thank you for your reply. I tried following all of the instructions from that and it still kept making new save files. I'm not sure what else to do.

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    Bluebellflora
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    2 months ago

    MrianB​ 

    Go to Applications > Utilities then open Terminal and copy/paste this search command then hit Enter/Return:

    find ~ -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null \
  -exec stat -f "%Sm %N" -t "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" {} \; | sort

    Once the command prompt reappears it has finished. Please copy/paste all the search results here.

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        Bluebellflora
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        1 month ago

        MrianB​ 

        Thanks!

        Files with eight letters and/or numbers ending in .save, e.g. Slot_00000004.save are save files the game will load IF they are in:
        Macintosh HD > Users > mrianbakhaya > Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves.

        Files ending .verX where the X is 0-4, e.g. Slot_00000004.save.ver3 are backups and do not load unless the .verX is removed.

        Going through them:

        Users/mrianbakhaya/Library/Mobile Documents/.Trash/...

        ⬆️ These were all in iCloud and have been trashed.

        /Users/mrianbakhaya/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/...

        ⬆️ These are in iCloud where the game cannot access them to load.

        So, all of your saves are in iCloud, they need to be in the local Documents folder: Macintosh HD > Users > mrianbakhaya > Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves

        You need to follow the instructions in the opening post and turn OFF iCloud Drive syncing so your Documents folder is local again.

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