Sims 4 Crashes Before Reaching the Main Menu. Please Help!!! =)

I cannot access the old save at all.

I can start a new game if I remove all the old saves. I played for about 2 hours with no crashing. Problem is, when I follow the instructions to recover the old saves, when I go to load them in game, the game insta crashes. Every time I open the game after that, it crashes on the loading screen. If I remove all the old saves again, the game will load up and I can play my new save I created after the update. Having them in the folder doesn't seem to matter provided the last save I accessed was the new save. If i try to load and old save, the game will crash every time I open it from then on. That is why I suspect the game is preloading the "last accessed save"  before it loads the main menu screen