Game Crashed and Erased Save Data

@kreatora  As I said in my earlier post, I do not use the internet conection for my saves because when I go to work and do not have access to the internet, then I wouldn't be able to play my game. I know I can always just download it; but most of the time I have a poor connection and trying to download something with a poor connection will sometimes delete files, corrupt them or just not even begin the download. So simply put: no, I do not use OneDrive.

@roberta591 : That was one of the first things I did for my laptop since I'm aware of this issue.

@172e3cda00349872 I probably didn't explain myself correctly: I have tested it in windowed mode but it ran slower and it reverted to skipping animations. I toned down the graphics to see if that would help, but it still skipped some animations while I was in windowed mode. Plus (and I'll admit it might be the laptop, because this isn't the first game it's done it with), my cursor will sometimes "escape" the windowed mode and I'll end up clicking on icon that's on my desk top (I keep a clean desk top, save for a few important ones); and of course the game will freeze for an unprecidented amount of time before finally downsizing itself while the new window loads. Most of the time when this happens, Origin will crash and I'll have to close the program.

As for the Save file advice, I only have two saves in that folder and as for games, I do not keep that many on my laptop. Even if I move my save to the desktop, will that be a premanent fix for the solution? If so, then fine but then I'll have to worry about my desktop being loaded right?

My mistake on the save comment for the family creator, I'm just used to saying "save" all the time even though "auto save" is almost a normal thing now. I does auto save after creating my family, I just get edgy about it because I'm so used to saving the file myself.

Instead of the desktop, I will move my save file to another folder that's not on the desktop, so incase this is a temporary fix then I won't overload my desktop with the save files. I've had to do that with another game before, and that seems to work until an update comes out.