@76345a It sounds like OneDrive may have gobbled more files, this time your saves. Please check there for your missing content; if you find any, put it back in the local version of Documents where it belongs.
If you don't see your saves in OneDrive, search your hard drive instead. Open a File Explorer window, click This PC in the left panel, and enter Slot_ in the search field in the upper right corner of the screen. That should turn up any saves on your computer, and again you can put them back where they belong.
Either way, if you're missing other files, they should be in the same place as the saves are, and you can move them back too.
@76345a Lots of people have had OneDrive issues of some kind, and usually the easiest intervention is to disable it entirely. If you don't want to do that, you can instead tell it to stop syncing the contents of Documents:
Please also let me know whether your system's Documents directory is pointing to OneDrive. Open a File Explorer window, right-click on Documents in the left panel, select Properties > Location, and you'll see a file path that does or does not include OneDrive.
Just to clarify... PDPDPD is me pdpdp is One Drive
Quick Access Documents : NO points to E:\GAME BACKUPS FROM PDPDPD\pdpdp
this location is on my backup drive
"This PC": E:\GAME BACKUPS FROM PDPDPD\pdpdp\pdpdp\OneDrive
One Drive Documents : C:\Users\pdpdp\OneDrive and shares with \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts
so it is sharing with itself?
C:\Users\PDPDPD\Documents\ Unsure because it has a sharing with \\SIMS\Users\PDPDPD\Documents but no location tab
C:\Users\pdpdp\Documents no location but apparently shares with itself: \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp
So both versions on C: are not communicating.
E:\Game Backups from PDPDPD\pdpdp\pdpdp\OneDrive\Documents this is a back up drive does that count? I have several pretty much redundant backups of TS4 on my E: drive.
I like One Drive in that it gives me a terrabyte storage but actually don't like it gobbling my Sims files, as they are ever changing.
I hope you can figure it out, puzzle lover... it certainly IS a puzzle!
Ea has been sorely lacking with finding out what's wrong. Last night I waited for 3 1/2 hours for them to call me, gave up! went to bed cross-eyed!
Hopefully I will be better tonight. Going to read that article you sent now. 🙂 Really, thank you so much. I'm glad you took this on.
@76345a This kind of sounds like a mess, to be honest. Some of it is normal, e.g. OneDrive pointing to or sharing with a couple different locations. Some of it seems unnecessarily convoluted. I can try to unpack it with you if you'd like, but the easiest solution might be to create a new admin account and move your files to that one. That way, you can set it up exactly as you'd like, in terms of both Documents itself and OneDrive, rather than trying to untangle this mess.
Just to be clear, something like this:
C:\Users\pdpdp\Documents no location but apparently shares with itself: \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp
doesn't mean the Documents folder is sharing with itself, it means it's apparently sharing with or pointing to some other folder in a separate directory you've created and labeled SIMS. Perhaps it's on your external drive?
The files you tried to extract are not meant to be read by anything except Sims 4. They're also irrelevant in that the game will create or recreate them as necessary.
Also included with thos unexractables were localthumbcache and localthumbcache-sims...I will look and see if there are backups anywhere
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