Some but not all save files missing (Mac)
I play on a Macbook. I last played Sims 4 sometime in May or June. A few days ago I wanted to play again. I let the game update. When I got in I realised that it was an old version of my game (I hav...
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I've searched in terminal and not found any additional place to look that I have not already tried
Which specific command did you use? What was the output in Terminal?
I used
find ~ -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null
The output was a long list including in my documents, my icloud and my trash - all places I've already checked multiple times and the May/June files are not there, only the April versions and the new one when I checked the game is able to save now.
Trash was because I copied the files to a new folder when I was trying to troubleshoot - I only deleted the copied files not the originals from my saves folder.
Ok. A second pair of eyes is always helpful on Terminal output so sharing here would be useful, I don't need to know your user account name, you can remove that. Or DM it to me if you aren' comfortable putting it here. You could also try a whole search of your Mac and not just of your user account:
find / -type f -name "*Slot_*" 2>/dev/null
