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soup443
4 months ago
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Corrupted Save Files sims4

corrupted i think some of my save files are corrupted. I did the add one file at a time method and i found the problem with my saves file. is there a way to reset the sims saving settings without de...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    4 months ago

    @soup443  Your first screenshot looks fine.  For the others, the way the saves are numbered may be the problem.  For any save that is NOT numbered 000000xx , try renaming it to Slot_0000001x.save, starting with 10.  You can ignore the saves that end in .verx for now—they're backups of the main save files with the same numbers.  But you can try renumbering them too if your main saves still don't load.  Just make sure to choose a different number and delete the .verx extension.

    The saves' numbers need to be exactly eight digits long, and you can use any hexidecimal digit, as in, 0 to 9, a to f.  But the game sometimes has problems with saves with very high numbers.

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soup443
4 months ago
@puzzlezaddict wrote:

@soup443  Please open Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 and post a screenshot of the contents of the saves folder, as in, I'd like to see the save file names and sizes.

You could of course share your saves, but there are other troubleshooting steps potentially worth trying first.


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soup443
4 months ago

and the others

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    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    @soup443  Your first screenshot looks fine.  For the others, the way the saves are numbered may be the problem.  For any save that is NOT numbered 000000xx , try renaming it to Slot_0000001x.save, starting with 10.  You can ignore the saves that end in .verx for now—they're backups of the main save files with the same numbers.  But you can try renumbering them too if your main saves still don't load.  Just make sure to choose a different number and delete the .verx extension.

    The saves' numbers need to be exactly eight digits long, and you can use any hexidecimal digit, as in, 0 to 9, a to f.  But the game sometimes has problems with saves with very high numbers.

    • soup443's avatar
      soup443
      4 months ago

      i think i did something wrong because now all my previous corrupted saves are the same game but its not the save i want. 

      • soup443's avatar
        soup443
        4 months ago
        @soup443 i think i fixed it, nevermind

        thank you so much
    • Yellowisabadnam's avatar
      Yellowisabadnam
      3 months ago

      Hi I'm having problems trying to play my older saves.

      I've stopped using OneDrive and have started using my local documents for my saves. The Paths are the same and I have also tried renaming the .verx extension.

      My main problem is that when I try to load my old save it just loads my current/newest one. I just have one of my old saves and the new save in the file but when I had my other ones in there they all did the same thing as well.

      I feel like I didn't explain that well so my step by step process was

      Click load game - Click on old save file to load (  Slot_00000010.save  ) - New save loads up instead (  Slot_00000011.save  )

      The old files name was originally Slot_0000078e.save and the (.ver0 - .ver4) files were the same as well but I changed them after it still didn't load with just the .verx changed

      (and just in case its relevant  there was also never a .ver1 or .ver2 for this save just the 0,3, and 4)

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        puzzlezaddict
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        3 months ago

        @Yellowisabadname  Please remove all these save files except for the first one (Slot_00000010.save), and see whether it loads.  You can delete the .ver3 and .ver4 files, which are too small to be proper saves and therefore can't be loaded.  But .ver0 and .ver1 might be fine, so you can try loading those separately; just renumber them and delete the .verx, for example Slot_00000012.save.

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