I ended up trying something and it actually worked, I was surprised. I started the game up and deleted the tray, mods, screenshots, and saves folders from the new Electronic Arts file that it had created and replaced them with the original files from my original save. It loaded the game and it is now back to my original save, I was able to recover pretty much everything the only difference is that it is now technically a new save file and not the original one. Honestly all I care about is that my save is back and it seems to have everything in it including the content from the new packs I bought and seems to be running smoothly. It has also stopped creating new save files once I moved everything into the last new one it had created.
Great you're back in your game although I don't understand this bit "replaced them with the original files from my original save" and this bit "It has also stopped creating new save files once I moved everything into the last new one it had created. " as a save file is one file, you can't edit the actual .save file itself to incorporate parts of another .save file.
So I loaded up the game and it created a new save again and I decided that I was just going to start a new game with this save. I made a sim and was trying to figure out if there is any way I can get my houses from my previous save from my gallery to use in this game. The only families and houses that were available to me were what I had made public, none of my saved library was accessible since it was all part of the original save file. I did some research to see if there is any way I can recover my library and read somewhere that I would be able to do this if I have the "Tray" folder from the save I want. I had all of my files and was able to create a copy of them as well by this point, so I decided to try what it said. I removed the "Tray" folder from the new save that was made and put it in a random folder on my desktop, then took the "Tray" folder from my original save and just dragged it into the Electronic Arts folder. I loaded the game and I had my library back with everything from my previous save in it. So from there I decided to try it with all of the important folders needed to load all of my original content- Tray, Screenshots, Mods, Saves, etc. I did the same thing where I removed the ones from the new save into my desktop and dragged my previous ones into the EA folder. Loaded up my game and everything was back to how it was, I had all of my content, my new packs had loaded in, and everything seems to be working like normal. Since the main problem I was having is that my original file was not recognized by the game for some reason, it created a new file when I loaded the game. Anytime I deleted that new file it would still create another one, so I tested if it will load the new file it created without making a 3rd one and it didn't, it was able to read the 2nd one and not my original one, so that's why I decided to just move my original content into the new save folder that the game created.
