how to recover save files overwritten more than 5 times?
Hi! Hope you are all having a great day.
For context, i have MCCC for autosave which i depend on religiously. Now, i let my sister play the sims on my laptop while auto save is on. i saved my game manually, before letting my sister play. i thought it will save in my original save file (not mccc auto save file). So when my sister played for hours with auto saving, it overwrote the latest game progress i had.
I do know that you can recover saves up to 5 versions, but since my sis played for hours, you can imagine how many time it auto save prompt for her ☹️((
Is there a way to recover save files older than the 5 backups? please help! im willing to deep dive anything
@thebooklovingsim Once the game has saved over the files, they're gone. You may happen to have an older backup, whether from MCCC-enabled auto saves or because you at some point used "save as" to rename the save. And if you use OneDrive, you may be able to find older backups on onedrive.com, either in "My files" or the recycle bin.
None of these are guaranteed though. It's entirely possible that your saves are just gone. I know it doesn't help now, but going forward, it's worth making manual backups that you store elsewhere, for example on an external drive or USB stick, so you don't have to worry about a computer problem permanently destroying your data.
