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Ariees416's avatar
5 years ago
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Saves Disappeared

I last played my game on Thursday (June 10), and I opened it today (June 12), and my save files aren't there. It appears as if Ive never played before so its just the play button, no option for load game or even start a new game, and I did not delete the saves myself. I looked in my save folder, and they were still there.

I removed my saves from the folder, deleted the folder and started my game so it would generate a new save folder, but it still did not read them after I put them back in. 

I removed my mods in case it was a broken mod interfering with it, but that did not work either. 

The last thing I did was delete sims and redownload it and that did nothing as well.

  • @Ariees416 

    I managed to load your game fine after renaming it. I completely missed it in your screenshot - you have your saves named incorrectly, maybe because your Mac has saved duplicates and added a number to the end. The saves should be Slot_00000002.save with no space and number after the initial Slot_00000002. Same for the Slot_00000003.save and Slot_00000004.save. The ones ending in ver are backups. To give you an example, this is my saves folder:

    Rename your saves and they should be good to load.

    (Thanks to @crinrict, the saves queen 🙂 )

17 Replies

  • Ariees416's avatar
    Ariees416
    5 years ago

    Im not sure what the update folder is. It generated when I updated from Catalina to Big Sur. I was able to get rid of it, but it came back in the most recent software update. When I tried to eject it, It says it can't, because 1 or more program is using it. 

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @Ariees416 

    Yeah, looks like a partition of your internal drive. If you look in Disk Utility it should give you more info. Mine looks like this (iMac upgraded from Catalina to Big Sur too):

    In Finder I don't have an Update partition, just the usual Macintosh HD and the Boot Camp partition:

    Anyway, I don't think it's related, I'm just curious about that Update partition 🙂 Thanks for the save, I'll try it later.

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @Ariees416 

    I managed to load your game fine after renaming it. I completely missed it in your screenshot - you have your saves named incorrectly, maybe because your Mac has saved duplicates and added a number to the end. The saves should be Slot_00000002.save with no space and number after the initial Slot_00000002. Same for the Slot_00000003.save and Slot_00000004.save. The ones ending in ver are backups. To give you an example, this is my saves folder:

    Rename your saves and they should be good to load.

    (Thanks to @crinrict, the saves queen 🙂 )

  • emariewilliams's avatar
    emariewilliams
    5 years ago

    I’ve been struggling with this aswell, would I be able to upload my file and you take a look at it? I’m a content creator and I lost everything!! The files are still there but because I disconnected my iCloud, my game is no longer able to read my saves and I’m getting depressed about it. Help PLEASE 😭