sims 4 game not working

Now my saves from this year and 2023 and 2024 have disappeared and I seem to only have ones from some of 2024? I can't find them anywhere and I didn't delete them, just launched the game after I moved them into my new file and now they're gone.

sash52542​ 

Never use any apps to remove supposed unwanted files. As you've probably now realised they do more harm than good and often remove files that other apps and even the operating system need to run in a stable environment. If you're running out of storage you should manually go through and see what is taking up so much room on your Mac that you can shift into cloud storage or onto an external drive.

How much storage is now available on your Mac?

Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following search command, all of it in one go, at the command prompt then hit Enter/Return:

find ~ -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null | while read -r file; do
  stat -f "%Sm %N" -t "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" "$file"
done

It will return the search results for all save files and also show the last modified date. Copy all of the results and paste them into a post here.

I have 36.37 GB left, I realise it must have deleted a lot because before I had less than 1 GB available. Here is what terminal gave me:

2024-02-03 11:57:06 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save.ver1

2024-01-16 11:04:19 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save

2024-01-21 11:38:22 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save.ver2

2024-03-22 19:15:03 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save

2024-02-10 12:06:01 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save.ver0

2024-01-21 12:15:29 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save

2024-01-21 11:18:09 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save.ver3

2024-01-21 11:17:36 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save.ver4

2024-01-30 15:25:31 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save.ver2

2024-02-13 16:23:35 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save

2024-03-22 17:52:30 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save.ver2

2024-02-12 16:38:48 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123d.save.ver1

2024-01-09 15:53:38 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save.ver3

2024-02-24 13:01:11 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123f.save.ver2

2024-02-01 11:03:07 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save.ver0

2024-01-09 15:41:38 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save.ver4

2024-02-12 20:53:35 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save.ver2

2024-03-22 17:47:23 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save.ver3

2024-03-22 17:45:24 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save.ver4

2024-01-29 20:11:27 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save.ver4

2024-01-29 20:33:56 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save.ver3

2024-02-12 20:30:42 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save.ver3

2024-01-13 15:04:10 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save.ver4

2024-01-31 19:48:28 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save

2024-02-01 11:02:57 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save.ver1

2024-02-12 18:06:31 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123d.save.ver0

2024-01-09 18:43:00 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save.ver2

2023-12-29 09:09:42 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391239CP.save

2024-01-31 15:39:27 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save.ver2

2024-01-09 09:18:22 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver4

2024-02-12 16:12:04 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save.ver1

2024-01-09 09:21:34 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver3

2024-01-30 16:43:30 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save

2024-01-17 15:47:37 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver1

2024-01-31 13:56:54 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save.ver4

2024-02-12 16:12:33 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save.ver0

2024-01-09 09:40:25 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver2

2024-01-31 14:50:36 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save.ver3

2024-03-02 11:19:15 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123f.save

2024-01-17 16:07:42 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver0

2024-01-30 17:42:12 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391239.save.ver1

2024-01-09 15:25:00 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save

2024-01-29 11:59:12 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver2

2024-02-15 10:56:48 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save.ver1

2024-01-29 10:57:05 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver4

2024-01-29 11:26:42 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver3

2024-01-29 18:04:16 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save

2024-01-30 18:06:32 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391239.save.ver0

2024-02-15 20:16:15 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save.ver0

2024-01-21 11:41:50 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save.ver1

2024-02-02 23:03:06 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save.ver2

2024-01-21 12:15:20 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000b.save.ver0

2024-02-12 19:19:13 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123d.save

2024-02-02 20:12:08 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save.ver4

2024-02-02 20:51:11 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save.ver3

2024-02-24 13:02:36 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123f.save.ver1

2024-02-01 10:21:36 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save.ver3

2024-02-01 10:16:09 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save.ver4

2024-02-12 16:38:33 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123d.save.ver2

2024-01-09 19:26:16 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save.ver0

2024-02-16 13:32:56 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save

2024-02-13 10:57:58 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save.ver1

2024-01-30 16:32:25 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save.ver1

2024-03-22 18:11:52 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save.ver1

2024-02-13 15:51:23 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000008.save.ver0

2024-02-12 16:37:54 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123d.save.ver3

2024-01-09 18:56:38 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000005.save.ver1

2024-02-24 13:03:45 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123f.save.ver0

2024-02-01 10:33:02 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save.ver2

2024-03-22 18:15:23 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391240.save.ver0

2024-01-30 16:35:48 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000d.save.ver0

2024-02-01 11:41:23 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000007.save

2024-01-17 15:46:40 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver2

2024-02-10 12:57:37 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123b.save

2024-02-12 14:09:13 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save.ver2

2024-01-30 18:20:22 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_12391239.save

2024-01-09 15:22:55 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver0

2024-01-31 15:57:31 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save.ver1

2024-01-17 15:46:00 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save.ver3

2024-01-31 16:57:08 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123a.save.ver0

2024-02-12 11:53:35 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save.ver4

2024-02-12 12:08:07 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save.ver3

2024-01-09 15:21:12 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_00000002.save.ver1

2024-02-15 10:29:46 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save.ver2

2024-02-11 18:32:40 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000a.save

2024-01-29 15:26:28 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver1

2024-02-15 10:16:32 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save.ver3

2024-02-14 20:34:36 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123e.save.ver4

2024-02-13 18:25:19 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_1239123c.save

2024-01-29 15:43:06 /Users/saschadobson/Desktop/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/saves/Slot_0000000e.save.ver0

I'm pretty sure I just found my saves and mods and tray files in iCloud data recovery, but they expire tomorrow, do I recover or will it mess something up?

sash52542​ 

Thanks for the Terminal output. None of those saves will load because they are on your Desktop which the game doesn't know exists. Move them into Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > saves where the game looks for your user data to load into the game.

sash52542 wrote:

I'm pretty sure I just found my saves and mods and tray files in iCloud data recovery, but they expire tomorrow, do I recover or will it mess something up?

I don't understand what you mean by expire. Just move them into your Documents folder, or onto an external drive if you still don't have enough free space, for safe keeping.

I moved the saves but my game crashes immediately every time I try to play it 

thank u SOOO much!