the file dates and sizes are identical, i will add them to the current files with different names just to make sure though but here are screenshots, you can see file path as well. The old ones I directly copied the Sims 4 folder and pasted to a different hard drive along with other game saves
@helka-exe That is quite strange, and I'm not sure how this would have happened. Is the other data that was stored on the old SSD still intact?
@puzzlezaddict Unfortunately no I had the SSD wiped after moving all important files. I do have the entire Sims 4 folder though and it is not just the saves but the whole folder that is identical, including CC and things I did not have installed before switching to new pc. All other game saves are fine though only sims 4 is affected which makes me more confused ☹️ I still have all my saves for other games dating back to 2019 to when I first built the old pc saved in this "old files" folder...
@helka-exe Then the only explanation I can think of is that you somehow copied over the new Sims 4 folder, and it overwrote the old one. There's no way Sims 4 itself did this, and OneDrive shouldn't either unless the "old files" folder was in Documents or another folder that OneDrive syncs. Even a cleaner app would have simply removed one set of files, if it did anything at all, rather than replacing the old with the new.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what else to tell you. If the old saves are gone, and the drive that held them has been wiped, there's no way to get them back.
@puzzlezaddictI figured as much, thank you for the help anyway I have recreated some of the families since but just wanted to see if I could get my old gameplay back. Who knows what went wrong with it but it is clear that it's gone now. At least I know to be more careful with transferring files in the future🙂
