Lost all my households

"I have reached out to other helpers, and we were wondering if it's possible that your played sims ("My Households" - the ones with the blue heart 'checked'/filled in) somehow got unchecked ( with the blue heart 'unchecked'/not filled in) from "My Households" and that's why they're not showing any more (so that would move them into "Other Households"). Please go to "Manage Households" and check the "Other Households" tab. If they are there please click on the heart to and save/move them back to played households ("My Households"). If this turns out to be the issue please make sure to also then save each household into your library so they will be there for reference/re-download to your game if needed. Any household in 'Other Households' is vulnerable to being  culled by the game."

I had checked that before, and checked again after you mentioned it just in case I missed something, and they are not in the "Other Households". I shall remember to save each household in the library in the future for reference.

"If you happen to have saved them in your library already and they are not showing up there, another possibility is that you should make sure that 'Include Custom Content' is checked in the sorter in your library - just in case. Some people have had an issue with households saving as having CC. Plus, since you have used CC, it may be possible that the 'Include Custom Content' sorter kicked in households and there is CC in many of your households so they are not showing up?"

I had checked that as well, the only households that are showing up are the ones I created from scratch in CAS as brand new households, as Sims 4 automatically saves them to the library after finishing creating them CAS and before placing them to their new lot.

Another helper has a suggestion as well... You could make a copy of your saves folder (save this copy on your desktop or an external drive for reference) then look at your backups of each save to confirm you did not accidentally save the game incorrectly.

I have made a copy and placed it on the desktop, but I literally have no idea where the backups of each are (is it the same files I am seeing in the saves folder?) and how to check them. I will need your assistance on this please.

It was also recommended that if you are streaming your game or posting 'Let's Plays' that you keep each "story" in it's own folder. Moving saves and creating their own folders becomes easy with practice.

If it is creating seperate games for each Let's Play and Story, I already do that in the main menu, I create new games. If it is the physical folders within the saves under Sims 4 in Electronic Arts folder. I have never done that before, but I will look up how to do that.

I will keep you posted on any progress I make, thanks 🙂

EDIT: Do you think adding the new game and stuff packs might have affected it, because it still doesn't make sense that one household out of all my played households is still there whilst the others have disappeared, plus their houses I added and customised are still exactly as I left them, additionally as some where originally townies that I started to play, other Sims have moved into their homes, but I have the option to add sims to empty lots diselected.