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astridou4
5 years ago
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Hello everyone ! I have a problem with the Sims 4. First it crashed multiple times few days ago, and now when I load the game my saved are gone. But I think I can see them in my computer. I believe ...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    5 years ago

    @astridou4  Yes, you can get rid of the 30 on the end, but you'll first need to renumber the save so it doesn't have exactly the same name as any other save.  For example, you could rename it Slot_0000000a.save or Slot_00000010.save, but you can't have two files named Slot_00000009.save in the same folder.  (That may be why the 30 is on the end, because duplicates with the same name were created.  But the game won't read a save file with an extra number on the end.)

    The saves are numbered in hexadecimal, with eight total digits, including the initial zeroes.  The number in the save name starts at 2 (1 used to be the auto save, but it's not used anymore) and goes through 9, then a to f, and then back to 10, through 19, then 1a through 1f, and back to 20, etc.  But the saves don't have to be numbered in order, so you don't have to worry about getting all the numbers exactly right.  Just make sure there are no duplicates, and that every save ends in .save, and you should be fine.

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puzzlezaddict
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5 years ago

@astridou4  I've moved your post to the Sims 4 PC tech section.

Is Sims 4 reading data from OneDrive, or is that where your saves are?  If it's the latter, you can copy your saves to your desktop, disable OneDrive's automatic syncing of Documents, and move the saves to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves.  You can do the same with the contents of Tray as well as any other user data you want to keep.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-which-onedrive-folders-to-sync-to-your-computer-98b8b011-8b94-419b-aa95-a14ff2415e85?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

If this isn't what's happening, please post the full file path to the saves you see.  You can write [username] instead of your username if you want, but leave the rest of the file path intact.

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    astridou4
    5 years ago

    Thank you for moving my post and answering!

    So I think that I managed to delete the files that were on One Drive (after copying them of course). I did paused the syncing of the documents and made sure my game files were now in my documents BUT my game still doesn't recognize my saves.. It is as if I had just started the game.

    Also all my saves have quite a weird name I think, for example "Slot_00000006.save 1.ver4".

    This is still the path of the files...

    C:\Users\astri\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts\Les Sims 4\Captures d'écran\

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      puzzlezaddict
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      5 years ago

      @astridou4  The .verx on the end of a save means it's one of the automatic backups the game creates.  These are really the files from the last five times you saved before the most recent one.  But if you delete the .verx extensions and renumber the saves (so you don't have multiple files with precisely the same name), those saves can be loaded as well.

      Your saves need to be in C:\Users\your username\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves, or often shortened to This PC\Documents etc.  They can't be read if they're in OneDrive, and they can't be read if they're in your screenshots folder either.  Be sure to make backup copies of your saves before moving them around, preferably on an external drive or USB if you have one, as OneDrive can sometimes interfere when you're trying to remove files.

      • astridou4's avatar
        astridou4
        5 years ago

        Ok sorry but I really can't figure out how to suppress the EA file from One Drive without it suppressing it from my computer, at the same time. I really don't know why it does that.I tried to stop the syncing with this particular file but then the file disappears from my computer... Maybe there's a simple way to do it and I'm dumb but.... I need help, sorry ^^

        Even when I move the file to the right place it automatically syncs with one drive and I tried to unsync it but again it does not work!!!! I'm lost and really annoyed xD

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