All save files just disappeared

[Citizen]

My save was stuck saving for a long time so i quit the game now they have all gone after rebooting, is there any save backups saved somewhere?

[RPG Gamer Man]

IT IS ADVISED you do not try to recover them. Most likely they were removed due to being corrupted. If you use mods, do not use them until updated to current patch build version of the game.

You must contact the mod developers and ask them to upgrade the mods your using to most current version build of the game.

Any old save has probably become corrupted. It is recommended to only make new saves after patch.

[Citizen]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

IT IS ADVISED you do not try to recover them. Most likely they were removed due to being corrupted. If you use mods, do not use them until updated to current patch build version of the game.

You must contact the mod developers and ask them to upgrade the mods your using to most current version build of the game.

Any old save has probably become corrupted. It is recommended to only make new saves after patch.

Its ok now, they have come back after another reboot; it seems to be buggy and slow when loading them though, and i've not used mods either.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by LoneCitizen:

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

IT IS ADVISED you do not try to recover them. Most likely they were removed due to being corrupted. If you use mods, do not use them until updated to current patch build version of the game.

You must contact the mod developers and ask them to upgrade the mods your using to most current version build of the game.

Any old save has probably become corrupted. It is recommended to only make new saves after patch.

Its ok now, they have come back after another reboot; it seems to be buggy and slow when loading them though, and i've not used mods either.

BE AWARE, you may run into other problems down the road if you keep using them. Older saves tend to be buggy with new patches come out....so do not be suprised if you run into other problems.

I will say this again, get rid of old saves and start a new game. You will run into less bugs and issues if you do this.

[SoULLeSs]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Originally posted by LoneCitizen:

Its ok now, they have come back after another reboot; it seems to be buggy and slow when loading them though, and i've not used mods either.

BE AWARE, you may run into other problems down the road if you keep using them. Older saves tend to be buggy with new patches come out....so do not be suprised if you run into other problems.

I will say this again, get rid of old saves and start a new game. You will run into less bugs and issues if you do this.

Yep. Even if you didn't used mods, your olds saves have the probability to break, mine worked so far and only crashed once in 2-3 hours, guess I'm lucky

[Citizen]

Ok I still have issues as the game is currently stuck saving a quicksave.
Sucks that i have to start again.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by LoneCitizen:

Ok I still have issues as the game is currently stuck saving a quicksave.
Sucks that i have to start again.

Yes, but that is one of the methods of using mods. This happens quite a bit also in other games i play/ I always end up deleting the old save and updating the mods.

Saves in games like this tend to get corrupted whenever the code is changed or fixed, so it is always best to start over a game..i lost many legacy families in the sims 4 like this, but the good thing is i can always design a new family.

[Kuroneko]

If you guys have Auto Cloud Save ( New inside the game ) then it be best to turn it off so the saves will show up normally when you want to save, unless you plan to play on multiple platforms. In that case if i was you all then i would only enable it when i would play on the other platform but keep it off when i am not going to do so and so on..

[Zero McDol]

- If a save is out of date, it will probably break and be deleted.
- Mods depend, and may break a save. I've never had an issue going between the vanilla and modded game with my save. That however, will depend on what mods that you use. I'm pretty light with my modding.


- Always keep a backup save on your desktop in-case something happens.
- Always bring your backup save up to date by pasting it into your game, loading the save, and then manually saving over it.
- Do Not depend on cloud to keep track of your autosaves, it will often override autosaves. Manual saves are safe.

[Citizen]

Ok I have turned off cross platform saving in game options and it has stopped the very slow loading/saving issue.

[Kuroneko]

I forgot to mention that i did a fresh new Start when my game updated, as to avoid any issues with old save files :3

[Kuroneko]

Oh and just incase new stuff was added to the start of the game as well :3

[Lazaretto]

I've been having this issue too, but It's just a visual bug I think, because it let me load them after I reopened the game

[TheDeadlyFriend]

Originally posted by Zero McDol:

- Do Not depend on cloud to keep track of your autosaves, it will often override autosaves. Manual saves are safe.

This literally just happened to me and what brought me here. The cloud save deleted my most current auto save so 2-3 hours of gameplay was just gone, lmao. What a great design...