Sims 4 Game not saving, help!
Hello, The past two times I have played my Sims game, I have saved my progress before logging off by hitting the 'Save and Exit game' button. I logged on the first time, seeing a family I moved int...
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@LausCassidy Do you have OneDrive enabled and set to automatically sync the contents of Documents? If so, the older saves might be overwriting the new ones. The easiest intervention is to disable OneDrive, but you can also stop it from auto syncing instead.
If that's not the issue, please create a new save, save your progress, restart your computer, and let me know whether that new save is available to load.
Hi there!
So I do have OneDrive, it's ridiculously annoying! It always starts up whenever I restart my PC, and every time I have to unlink it And I don't know how to stop it!
Do you think if I copy and pasted the files from my one drive over to my PC it would restore what I lost? I can see some save files from the date and time that I saved them on there?
I'm super confused why it's only doing this now?
Thanks for your help so far!
@LausCassidy It's possible that the content on OneDrive includes the newer versions of your saves; the only way to find out is to open them and look. First though, disable OneDrive's auto syncing of Documents:
This will keep OneDrive running, so you can retrieve content from it, but will prevent it from moving your files around on its own. When you're satisfied, you can uninstall or just disable it if you want.
Move the Sims 4 folder out of OneDrive and onto your desktop and look at the saves and Tray folders inside. You'll get some idea of what they are from their modified dates, that is if moving the files doesn't reset the dates. If you want to load the files in-game, go into the Sims 4 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts and move the saves and Tray files to the desktop (not in the same location as the ones from OneDrive; create a new folder if necessary), and move the ones from OneDrive into that Sims 4 folder. When you load the game, you'll see all the OneDrive content.
If the saves and tray files don't load, it might be because of how they're named. Saves in particular need to be named in the format Slot_0000000x.save , so if there are extra numbers in there, e.g. Slot_0000000x 2.save, the game won't read them. You can just remove the extraneous numbers though.
Hi there,
So I'm trying to do as you advised and it keeps saying this...(See picture)
I tried it with Documents too and it said the same thing.
Any ideas to get around that?
Edit: I have included a screenshot of my save files too, there seems like there's quite a lot, is there any I should be deleting?
The save I'm trying to get back is the 17th Jan one from 3am.
Thank you!
@LausCassidy For OneDrive, try the approaches mentioned here; you may need to stop a sync in progress before you can change the settings:
If those steps don't help, try this approach:
For the saves themselves, all the junk after the .save part of a save name needs to be deleted before the game will read it. The .verx suffix means a backup save; the -DESKTOP... is what OneDrive put on the end of duplicates so it could sync those duplicates in addition to the originals without having multiple files with the same name. Point is, for the saves you want, make sure to delete the extra characters in the save name, then put the files in the local version of ...\The Sims 4\saves, and the game should read them.
OneDrive is always going to be annoying though, unless you make it stop.
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