5 days of saves gone.

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I went to play my supersim today and found the last save was from 5 days ago, meaning I lost 5 days of play and my sim is no longer a supersim. I have never had a problem with my saved games before this. 7 aspirations gone. 5 different jobs top level gone. all the skills he learned gone. the last save was for the 15th but I last saved on the 19th so their are no saves to recover from later. I know the save was fine as it was loading ok&nbsp; up until the 19th. I do play with a few mods but they are all up to date. As this was a mod household it have 12 occupants so testing with no mods is a no no. How would 5 days of saves just disappear? I have video to prove this. and no I don't use cloud services.

puzzlezaddict · Answer

billblogs​&nbsp; Are the missing save files present in Documents &gt; Electronic Arts &gt; The Sims 4 &gt; saves?&nbsp; You can sort the files by modified date to make it easier to check.
Please also make sure that the Sims 4 folder isn't currently inside OneDrive.&nbsp; The service could have reenabled itself without your noticing.&nbsp; Here's how to check:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/

billblogs · Answer

puzzlezaddict​ Hi, No the files are not in onedrive, I don't use it and its not active. I searched the saves folder and the last save from that game is the 14th more or less when I started the save. I started again from scratch I tested my mods in this game as well and found one that was stopping the build ui from appearing. Thanks for trying to help, I will have to start backing up my saves again I suppose because I had not experienced any problems I had become a bit complacent. Is it possible that a new game somehow over wrote the last save from that game?

puzzlezaddict · Answer

billblogs​&nbsp; Your previous saves shouldn't have disappeared, due to the update or for any other reason.&nbsp; The only common causes of disappearing saves are OneDrive/iCloud Drive, which you've already eliminated as a source of error; and installing the game itself into Documents &gt; Electronic Arts, meaning it would share space with the user files, and the EA App could therefore delete user files.&nbsp; If you haven't done that either, then it's time to run a&nbsp;thorough malware scan.&nbsp; Let me know if you need help with that.

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