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Tropsico's avatar
6 years ago

Everything reverted back to old date (Save/cc)

So, i haven't been playing the game for months, decided to play it again today. But when i started the game the only save i could see was a save from 2018 which back then i didn't have my current pc. And i played the game for almost 20 hours in 2019, and i even had custom content. None of them were there when i opened the game today (not in the documents folder as well), i only had stuff from 2018, screenshots and no cc. This is really weird as if it has gone back in time, and no i did not have any backups and recuva file recovery doesn't show any deleted/rewritten files. Am i going mad? If not can anyone help?

5 Replies

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @Tropsico   Look in the OneDrive folder. If you start the game BEFORE you enable OneDrive, OneDrive will only try to sync the new file. If you logged into Onedrive (enabling it) you can logout or configure OneDrive to not sync the Sims folder in your user documents folder.

  • Tropsico's avatar
    Tropsico
    6 years ago

    Thank you for the answer, i see that a lot in these forums, but the thing is i never even enabled nor opened onedrive on my computer, i don't even have a microsoft/hotmail account. And when i think of it i used this pc back in 2018 as well, so these saves are from this machine.

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @Tropsico the cloud does not forget. You don't need any accounts. Periodically OneDrive pops up and asks you to login like after an update. That's all it takes for OneDrive to start trying to sync.If things are disappearing from your user's documents folder this should be the first thing to check. I created my Microsoft account to get the free upgrade to Windows 10.

  • Tropsico's avatar
    Tropsico
    6 years ago

    Logged into onedrive, nothing in it, empty any ideas? haha

  • roberta591's avatar
    roberta591
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    @Tropsico You don't have to log into OneDrive. Onedrive moves files from your documents folder to system device(C)/users/(user name)/OneDrive folder. When Onedrive prepares to sync files it moves newer files to this folder. Once Onedrive does this the game can longer find the games user files that were moved because the operating system and not the game moved the files.