Saved games are missing and not on iCloud

Thanks again kreatora, 

I did locate the saved files and I checked them against the file locations for the games that are being displayed in game. Apparently all of my saved files are being shown as every file name is accounted for. So I have no idea where the other files have disappeared to. I tried spotlight search for files with similar names to the saved extensions but with no luck. e.g "Slot_00000008.save.ver1" (I searched for anything 'slot' and found nothing out of place).

I've check iCloud in case something got up there but its also empty for documents and searched my computer for any folder called 'saves' (but only found the one I already found in the Sims 4 folder) so I think I might have to give up.

While searching my mac, I have discovered Spotlight is not working properly so I reset that in Terminal. Then will try again to see if the search has any luck. But as it stands everything in the 'saves' folder is showing up in the load game areas and I can't find any other folders for Electronic Arts or Sims 4 anywhere so I think it might be a dead end. 

Thanks for your help. 

Liz