I can't save my game anymore
And I don't even get an error text, nothing. It just doesn't save. For some reason this only happens on my main save, not on the other one. I've cleared my cache, repaired the game, did a folder refr...
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My game has been doing this since I tried to save on Sept 2 a file that I last played Aug 29 (and it was fine). There is no error message when this happens. It's not the Error 0 issue. The game acts like it's saving fine, but no changes are saved. The file date/time stamp update, but the content doesn't change when you go back into the file. Doing Save As does not change anything. I don't use Mods or have CC and rarely have any glitches so this suddenly happening is freaking me out a bit.
One thing I just noticed is that this file (which I've only been playing since Lovestruck came out) has ballooned to a humongous file size compared to all my other save files (it's 220,000K whereas even my longtime legacy file of multi generations is only 18,000k, I'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with all the Cupid's Corner Sims that are downloading into the file as I've been playing with the Lovestruck features. Manage Worlds says I now have 64/150 Sims in game, which seems a high number for me. My played Sims only total about 20.
I started a new file Sept 3 as a test with only a couple of my own Sims and so far it's saving okay and the file size is only 8,000k. But now I'm afraid to open any of my older files with my legacies, because I don't want these saves destroyed and I don't know what triggered this. 😬
I have good news! Until today, my file had been completely hosed. It was 220,000K in size and nothing but random build/buy changes were saving. I fiddled with the file, tried using different versions of it, repaired my game twice (even did the thing where you remove the whole Sims folder and force the game to recreate it), and nothing helped, so I finally gave up last week and resigned myself to placing the Sims I'd saved in my gallery to a new file and starting over.
Well, after today's update, I noticed that the new file I'd been playing for about a week now had strangely DECREASED in size when I saved it just now. And that was after I'd added a couple new lots to the maps. Hmmmm.
On a whim, I loaded the "corrupted" file, let things run for a while (gave the Sims time to get to sleep), then saved again and the file size reduced from 220,000k down to 8000K AND when I loaded the game again, everything had saved! The Sims were in bed where I left them!
I have no idea what happened or why, or if this file is "all better now", but maybe I can play it long enough to finish the stories I was working on with it and then just move on to something else. But it seems like something in today's update fixed "something" because that is a huge change in file size when I did nothing but let the game run for a few minutes. I didn't delete anything from it.
So, hopefully today's update with help a few others that have been having this problem with saving progress. 🤞
cchant86 Today's update did in fact fix some causes of Error Code 0:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/FIXED-PC-MAC-Save-Error-0-Patch-1-86-166/td-p/11414169
I'm glad it helped you too.
