When i opened my game, i wanted to load one of my sims 4 households. But there was no load game button or a new game button. All there was was a option to see all of the sims 4 games i have, a option to open the gallery, notifications, and menu. I went to see if my saved games were deleted by going to the sims 4 folder and all of my saved games were still there but i cant play any of them because im not getting the option to load any of my games. What's going on???

Close the game Try moving your saves folder to the desktop, then start a new start the game to create a new saves folder. Close the game Put one of the save games from your folder back (not the slot_00000001.save, that's the autosave) Check if it now shows up again

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25 Replies

dzejna78147
Newcomer
13 hours ago
Unfortunately, for some reason the game did not create a new save file and I have no idea why. I did what you said: closed the game, moved my Saves folder in desktop and created new game. I did not find the new Saves folder. I am frustrated since I have 400 hours in the game that have just disappeared in a snap of fingers.
BigCoolSquirrel
5 years ago
I am having the same issue, but my saves folder is completely empty. Any idea where the files might have gone, or why?
crinrict
Hero+
8 years ago
So you moved in your family and on going back to the main menu you still don't have a load button ?
yourmovingcastl
8 years ago
That's more than 100 hours of gameplay down the road! YAY!!! Just after I finished building a house that took three hours, and started a huge family line! Yay! I'm so happy. Also, none of those things worked for me, I don't know what to do. I'm in literal tears.
UnderlandDgtl
Rising Traveler
8 years ago
For those of you still having this problem, this did it for me 🙂 I had no saved games and then no houses and this thread fixed everything!

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/The-Sims-4-Get-to-Work-The-Lots-keep-disappearing/m-p/4679120#M50448

Hope it helps! ❤
Ray665
8 years ago
thanks that worked. Lets go EA......fix it
Anonymous
8 years ago
Not sure if this was exactly the correct move, but I had her move the file out of her EA files and start up the game. No such luck—her old saved games are not back.
Anonymous
8 years ago
Okay, I will instruct her to do so. Should I have her move it back after?
Phantomlover1717
Hero+
8 years ago
Just leave it outside of the EA folder.
Anonymous
8 years ago
Do you mean that she should delete that file from the Saves folder? I don't understand what you mean by leaving it out, there's not anywhere else to put it from what I know.