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omgyamisocringe
Rising Veteran
4 months ago

[SOLVED?] HELP! ALL MY SAVES ARE GONE!???!!

I dragged my saves, tray, and mods folder off to the side when I was trying to fix any broken mods and when I tried re-applying them back, I noticed that my saves folder was cut short, and all of my ...
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puzzlezaddict's avatar
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
4 months ago

@omgyamisocringe  The Steam file is too small to hold any save data, so it's more likely some metadata, and it might not be specific to Sims 4.  As far as I know, Steam doesn't support cloud saving for Sims 4 either, so this file may not have any actual use.  But I don't have a Steam install and haven't experimented myself.

I do think it's worth loading the saves in your screenshot, including the backups, to see what you get.  You can also search your computer for the other saves to see if any show up.  I'd suggest downloading Everything, from VoidTools, which is a free and highly efficient search tool.  Search for Slot_ and see what turns up, then rename backups if necessary.

omgyamisocringe's avatar
omgyamisocringe
Rising Veteran
4 months ago

Yeah, I tried that and...all of saves are gone. :Ɪ

The files that I showed just so happened to be the most recent files I installed after my break, but I didn't even play with those, so...seems like I have to start from scratch again and just scavenge with whatever saves I've managed to have left. Most of what I found on my desktop (including the other accounts I have attached to this one) only goes back to 2021, unless it's mods, then there isn't much to see. But, thanks for the app though! :Ɪ

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 months ago

    @omgyamisocringe  I'm sorry to hear that.  It's probably not much consolation now, but most of us have had to learn about manual backups the hard way at some point.  I lost an entire Sims 3 Saves folder a while back because I wasn't paying close-enough attention.  And and now I have three external drives for various purposes.

    • omgyamisocringe's avatar
      omgyamisocringe
      Rising Veteran
      4 months ago

      @puzzlezaddictYeah, I'm really just mad because it wouldn't let me undo like how you'd normally would, and that I had some unfinished/saved tray files attached to those saves, but thankfully it didn't bork my tray files and cc, otherwise, I'd really be screwed. It's one of those "once every blue full moon" moments with technology where it decides to do the complete utter opposite of what you expected/asked of.

      Welp, I'm off to saving my content now. Thanks, again for the help.

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