Sims 4 deleted games
I don´t know if it just happened to me, but I´m freaking out. I opened sims as I usually do and all my saves were gone. It just says: "welcome to the sims 4!", and NOTHING is in my game. What do I do...
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Ok so I feel a little silly now... the search feature on my computer evidently doesn't work very well because I went hunting manually and found the recreated folder... right where it's supposed to be.
So if you want to fix the issue, give this a go:
- Close the game if you have it open.
- Go to the save location (Macintosh HD/Users/'XYZ'/Documents > should see folder for Electronic Arts)
- Move the entire Electronic Arts folder to your desktop and rename it (assuming you have no other EA games, in which case you may want to move just the Sims 4 folder. I don't think it would really make a difference to your other games either way).
- Launch the game. A new EA folder should generate in the default save location above.
- Close the game.
- Move your old files back to the new EA folder (I just moved the Sims 4 folder into the new EA folder rather than replacing EA with EA, if that makes sense).
- Relaunch the game and it should be back to normal.
the search feature on my computer evidently doesn't work very well because I went hunting manually and found the recreated folder... right where it's supposed to be.
When the Electronic Arts folder is in the user's Documents folder, where it should be, it is hidden from a search which of course means that if you search for "The Sims 4" that is also hidden because it is within the Electronic Arts folder in Documents. This is intentional on EA's/Apple's part. I have no idea why as it's ridiculous and makes no logical sense to me and causes more problems than it solves but it is always better to manually navigate through Finder to the location rather than just use the search options in macOS.
Move your old files back to the new EA folder. (I moved the Sims 4 folder into the new EA folder rather than replacing EA with EA, if that makes sense)
It's not a good idea to just blindly move the whole TS4 back into the EA folder because it may just be one or more files that is causing the issue. There is a more methodical approach that should be taken - [INSTRUCTIONS] How to troubleshoot and test a broken game | EA Forums - 11864548
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