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It was my understanding that if you had Not gone into a household that had a photos then they would not been affected by this photos turning black. Now the new update is here to fix this issue it seems that is not the case, I have just logged into my household that I know had many photos and I made sure NOT to load in because I really did not want to lose the photos, but low and behold all are black, Which means if I send my sims to university that I know I have photos of graduation pictures of my sims before will all be black too, I am really disapointed about this and feel like it was not a fix at all.
I'm afraid you have misunderstood how this bug occurred, based on all my own testing + the testimony of players, the bug specifically affected unloaded households. This is why rotational players where particularly likely to experience this problem, while people who only play one household might be lucky to avoid it.
The bug appeared to trigger during saving the game, where pictures not currently loaded into the game (either on lot or in Sim's inventories) would fail to be saved properly, leading to missing data. Once the save file is then loaded, the pictures would be blank due to missing data. This also caused save files to noticably reduce in size.
The real issue here is lack of communication from the developer + the huge delay in rolling out a fix. Even if it is fixed now, it will have huge ramifications for players for a long time.
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