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Anonymous
10 years ago

All my sims 4 saved games are gone

When I opened up my Sims 4 game, my saved game is gone! The whole game restarted itself like its the first time I opened it. But in the EA folder, I still have all my screenshots and my game is still...
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crinrict
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10 years ago

This usually happens if the auto-save or one of the saves in your folder corrupts. It "hides* the rest of your saves although they are still fine.

First think you should do is make a backup of your user files: http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/backups/

After that, just move the slot_00000001.save to the desktop and check if the game then returns.as playable.

If that doesn't work, try the same with slot_00000002.save until you find the guilty party.

The saves called slot_0000000x.save.verX are automatic backups for your games and they are not checked at the time of loading so you can ignore those for now.

If you need help figuring out which one is the guilty one, you can zip your entire saves folder and upload to dropbox, mediafire, googledrive or some other file sharing site and PM me the link. I can take a look if I can save your savegame. Even if you can figure it out, it would be great if you could share your save for the devs to squash this issue.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
8 years ago
i did as described and it didnt work :'(

I know which file is the one I want because of the time it was saved. But I tried adding to the desktop and it also didnt work...

im very frustrated, any way to fix this? thanks!
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    172e3cda0034987
    8 years ago

    If you still have your saved games in your Sims 4\saves folder -
    [C:\Users\Username\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves]

    It may be the game isn't reading the save files correctly. Have you tried renaming your saved game file?

    To rename your save, remove the version number. - .ver0 or .ver1 by deleting the .ver1 on the end.

    For example:
    Slot_00000002.save.ver1

    Rename it to:
    Slot_00000002.save

    You may want to give it a different number if you already have a save 2 in your folder. The game should then recognize the save file again.

    -- If you have an old auto save file (Slot_00000001.save) it's safe to delete as the game doesn't use it anymore.

    If the above doesn't help, Crinrict has some very useful tips on saved games disappearing:

    Save Games disappearing
    https://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2014/09/save-games-disappearing/

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