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This isn't a bug and character data has always been written into bin items so that families and lots can be migrated into new neighborhoods without losing progress. The tray directory in The Sims 4 is the new 'family bin' from previous versions and the functionality is identical. The only way to reset the household is to create a new one with your original exports (the game auto-exports when characters are created)
@ForestNinja0 wrote:This isn't a bug and character data has always been written into bin items so that families and lots can be migrated into new neighborhoods without losing progress. The tray directory in The Sims 4 is the new 'family bin' from previous versions and the functionality is identical. The only way to reset the household is to create a new one with your original exports (the game auto-exports when characters are created)
It wasn't an in-game save I was using, although what I was using is lost to me now. It got pretty convoluted what I created at what point when I couldn't do saves from in-game. There is a bug, although it may be smaller than what I was experiencing. When I create a character with certain traits, and later create another character from that initial one with different traits, it seems to retain a reference to at least one trait, even though it's not there anymore. My first character had Genius and the second one didn't, but the second one kept getting the not-enough-challenge moodlet from being a genius, which he wasn't.
I'm not familiar enough with S3 to remember how it worked, but I do understand now how the saves are supposed to work. I didn't when I posted this as I had never been able to save a family in-game (due to the other bug mentioned).