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caterinaonea
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How to fix Sims 4 saves after restoring them from OneDrive trash

Hi, I have a very specific save file issue on my windows laptop. I had all my Sims 4 save & data files deleted from my OneDrive when I accidentally allowed it to clear up space. Every single file wa...
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    puzzlezaddict
    7 months ago

    @caterinaonea  You can get rid of all the scratch folders.  You should have one while you're playing, but it should disappear when you quit, and extra folders are doing nothing but taking up space.

    For the saves themselves, they all have extra numbers in parentheses, which prevents Sims 4 from reading them.  The saves need to be named Slot_ followed by an eight-digit hexidecimal (0 to 9, a to f) number followed by .save , with nothing else added.  The .verx files are backups, and they can be used too if you delete that .verx extension.  Here are some examples of properly-named files:

    Slot_00000002.save

    Slot_0000000c.save

    Slot_00000015.save

    The other complicating factor is that the saves in your screenshot look too small to be proper saves.  You can try to load them, but you may find that they don't work, that only larger saves are viable.  Feel free to experiment with your saves to find what you're looking for; there's no harm in trying to load a bad one.

    If you want to get rid of OneDrive entirely, here's how:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/PC/CURRENT-ISSUE-Sims-4-saves-user-content-disappearing-PC/m-p/12475370#Remove

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