Odd behavior
So I have been lucky with sims, never had problems (apart from the usual, i am gonna freeze and shut down for no reason) (so i save often)...apart from yesterday morning :(...
So i was in build mode, and after a while it wouldn't let me build , i was building a fence and placed one and when i placed another the first fence would disappear. or when i tried to place a chair it disappeared to. then I would go into live mode and the game wouldn't play (stuck on pause) I could go back into build mode but cant build. Going to main menu I would be stuck on loading screen. So have to alt,ctrl.del. end task.
Logged out tried again, same again. Logged out again, but went to build only for same lot, i could build - great -...but when i went to play the sims same issue again.
OK so uninstalled everything, Put my save file on a USB. Went to move save file after installing---and its not there -----
OK so my question...why did this bug happen? was it a corrupted save file? how does one get a corrupted file? How did I loose a save file on a USB? How do I get over loosing over 3 weeks of work :( ? How do I stop this from happening again?
Thank you for reading and any help that is given.