save disappeared after update

[JordisonGirl]

I launched the game after a long time no playing it, (last time was in July I think). It installed the update and when I'm on the menu it only proposes me to start a new game. Where is my save ?!! I've restarted, nothing new. put the save files in a SSD an unistall/install properly, put the save files in the save folder, doens't work. Have I really lost my character for ever ?? (Sorry if I made mistakes, English isn't my native language)

[Xautos]

possibly corrupted, possibly there has been so many updates that the save game is unable to be used with the latest update because they are incompatible. It might also be because you could be running mods and might not have the right mods and one mod WW makes it clear that you can't save your game from manage world screen to avoid causing problems to your save files.

If you have your save files, including several previous versions of it, you should be able to recover from a previous save if it's corruption to the main save. If it's an incompatibility then you are sunk. If it's a mod issue, you'll need to remember what mods you had installed last, all of them, and install them all and try loading your save again.

If you have saved your households and lots, those would be found in the tray folder, so if you copied that along with the saves back when you last played, you only need to copy the tray folder back and you have your households and lots you built even if the save was lost. If you don't have that and your save is a mess, i'm afraid you'll just have to start over.

Update your saves and tray folder regularly as you feel and keep them safe on an usb. Mods are a different issue, i'd suggest keeping a copy of those. You are relying on that modder to bring out new versions to keep them compatible with the latest update, but there could be one or two modders who might stop working on their mods and up and leave, so having a version of that now expired mod might be helpful at first. unfortunately however some mods can be so horribly outdated they won't register with the game as being there, or could crash the game on loading repeatedly until removed.

Anyway. I hope you have copied what you could from the tray folder back then, at least not all your efforts are lost, even if you saves are.

[JordisonGirl]

Originally posted by Xautos:

possibly corrupted, possibly there has been so many updates that the save game is unable to be used with the latest update because they are incompatible. It might also be because you could be running mods and might not have the right mods and one mod WW makes it clear that you can't save your game from manage world screen to avoid causing problems to your save files.

If you have your save files, including several previous versions of it, you should be able to recover from a previous save if it's corruption to the main save. If it's an incompatibility then you are sunk. If it's a mod issue, you'll need to remember what mods you had installed last, all of them, and install them all and try loading your save again.

If you have saved your households and lots, those would be found in the tray folder, so if you copied that along with the saves back when you last played, you only need to copy the tray folder back and you have your households and lots you built even if the save was lost. If you don't have that and your save is a mess, i'm afraid you'll just have to start over.

Update your saves and tray folder regularly as you feel and keep them safe on an usb. Mods are a different issue, i'd suggest keeping a copy of those. You are relying on that modder to bring out new versions to keep them compatible with the latest update, but there could be one or two modders who might stop working on their mods and up and leave, so having a version of that now expired mod might be helpful at first. unfortunately however some mods can be so horribly outdated they won't register with the game as being there, or could crash the game on loading repeatedly until removed.

Anyway. I hope you have copied what you could from the tray folder back then, at least not all your efforts are lost, even if you saves are.

Thanks for taking time to answer that's very kind.
I'm not using mods, I'm a newbie in the world of Sims ^^"
I didn't saved the tray folder, didn't knew it was important, for me only saves were.
Now I know, I will not make same mistake twice ^^"
Have a nice day :)
I think I'll just restart a new game, my Sim didn't made a great career xD