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@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