My SIms 4 save files keep disappearing
I have been playing this game for 4 years now. I got a new computer around the beginning of June and everything went fine. I did run into trouble where on one account the sims 4 wouldn't launch entir...
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@bridgerex26 I've merged your new post with your other thread. The game doesn't generally delete saves, although there may be an occasional problem with migrating save data from the standard version of Sims 4 to the Legacy Edition. Much more likely though is a system issue, as described above.
Ok, so my onedrive is not synced, I made sure that wouldn't do anything before downloading the game. I don't have the legacy edition so that can't be it. And I've fixed the deletion issue, EA knows the sims 4 deletes saves because on that other thread people had that exact issue and EA could stop the future files from being deleted but not recover the old ones. I can play the game fine now, but someone who works for EA should fix this because this is a reoccurring problem from 6 YEARS ago. @puzzlezaddict I know you don't work for EA so I don't know if you can help from here, but thanks for your concern.
@bridgerex26 I honestly don't know why the files would disappear on you. I've seen many threads about saves disappearing, but among the people who come back, almost all of them find their files in cloud storage (OneDrive or iCloud) or elsewhere on their computers. I've never had this issue myself, so it's difficult to track what triggers it; I don't even know where these files are landing half the time, because people just say "I found them" and leave it at that.
I would love to know what fixed the issue for you in particular, both out of curiosity and in case I see it again. Given that this is a recurring problem, you'll probably want to back up your files periodically, just in case. Of course you shouldn't have to, but it's best practice anyway, and besides, there are enough other reasons saves disappear or get corrupted that aren't EA's fault, anything from an extremely broken mod to hard drive failure.
@Simslovergirl114 Are you missing several households within existing saves, or several saves of one household each? Are the lots missing from your in-game library, or from within the saves?
I'm missing several households within, the lots are missing in the saves, they're in the gallery but I don't want to take them from there and put them back on the empty lots, I also have a household that I'm doing a let's play with but the house that I used was in Del Sol Valley but I redesigned it and now the redesigned house is gone and no where in my library or gallery
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