Is this a corrupted save? And if so..

thesimmer14 · January 2018

I have not opened the save file yet.

.. I remember reading somewhere that this is a sign of a corrupted save. Luckily I had just started it yesterday, so I'm not losing anything.
Got an Error Code 16 when saving, so I just quit without saving. But the save's still there? I assume it's corruption.

Basically wondering if it's okay to just leave it there and start a new save, or is it okay to delete it?
Thanks.
EDIT: Just realized the save date is wrong too.. oh no.
Should say yesterday or something like that.

igazor · January 2018

Error 16 tends to mean that your hard drive is full or something like file corruption interfered with the save so that it couldn't complete. A partial game save of course cannot be loaded. So easy things first, how large is the drive on which you are playing and how much free space does it have left?

JoAnne65 · January 2018

It’s also possible you didn’t choose an active family yet? Then there’s nothing wrong with the save, it just can’t show a house and a family.

TadOlson · January 2018

That's about how my save file looked in that game where my active family had their baby taken by the social worker after it loaded into a UI failure when I tried to load it again and it couldn't load without throwing a message telling me my save was too corrupted to load.I'd been having wrong interactions attatched to sims like adults getting toddler or pet interactions after glitching to toddler size with adult sized heads and toddlers getting adult interactions just before the UI failure.

thesimmer14 · January 2018

I basically didn't have enough room to save at the time, hence, the error code 16. Freed up some space however, so I don't think this'll happen again.
I'm just wondering if it's safe to just ignore this save and start a new one.

JoAnne65 · January 2018

Have you tried opening it yet? Maybe there's nothing wrong with it? It's always safe to open a save (if it's corrupted you simply get that notification) and also to start a new one. But I'd want to know first if there's actually something wrong with it if I were you.

TreyNutz · January 2018

thesimmer14 wrote: »

I'm just wondering if it's safe to just ignore this save and start a new one.

Sure. You can delete it from the save game chooser screen, or delete the folder directly from your Saves folder.

JoAnne65 · January 2018

I just did a test concerning the home menu. This is a save from a game with no active family:

As you can see it looks very similar to yours. One difference that could indicate this is not the case here: there is no family name on the right in my case, there is in yours (which implies your save does have an active family).

I accidently bumped into another out-of-the-ordinary save in the menu (not related, but to show the menu may show empty icons at times without meaning the game is corrupted):

That's a very old save of mine I played years ago. The save itself didn't cause any issue, I played it till I left it with the next heir. There just seemed to be an issue with the lot. Never figured out what precisely, I could play in that house without a problem. It just didn't show in the icon.

TreyNutz · January 2018

@JoAnne65 , that issue can be due to having a tent stored in a chest.

https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/09/bug-missing-picture-in-savegame-overview.html

thesimmer14 · January 2018

The only thing is.. it's showing an incorrect date and time as to when I last opened it.

And yes, the family name is still showing, so, yeah.

phoebebebe13 · January 2018

thesimmer14 wrote: »

The only thing is.. it's showing an incorrect date and time as to when I last opened it.

And yes, the family name is still showing, so, yeah.

It looks like a corrupt save. Go into documents, electronic arts, the sims 3 and then saves folder. Delete any bad saves . It will then remove the bad save from your launcher automatically

JoAnne65 · January 2018

TreyNutz wrote: »

@JoAnne65 , that issue can be due to having a tent stored in a chest.

https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/09/bug-missing-picture-in-savegame-overview.html

Though I can hardly imagine it was a tent (those are always in their inventory), there was a chest in that household. So I indeed think it must have had something to do with that then.

IreneSwift · January 2018

If you haven't previously looked in your saves folder, there's a chance the game might have made a backup of that save. It won't show in the menu, because it has .backup added to the end of the file name. If you find one like that, delete the .backup extension, and it will show up in the menu. The game doesn't always save backups, but it's worth checking for one if you haven't already.

TadOlson · January 2018

@phoebebebe13 -I've had a save that looked like that thunbnail for the game where my family's baby had been taken by the social worker earlier in that save and it started looking like that just before the load into my UI failure and the time it failed to load and told me the save was too corrupted to load.It actually was corrupted by the baby being removed when the social worker took it away.I had adults glitched to toddler height with adult sized heads that could only do toddler or pet interactions and toddlers with adult interactions just before the UI failure.

polrbear · January 2018

My main save now has that picture...but that's because there are too many sims living there to generate a family picture. However, on my save the house still shows in the bottom thumbnail. My save is fine, I hope yours is okay too

Karritz · January 2018

The Sims 3 needs free disk space to run properly too. Make sure you have plenty of Free disk space. You'll need more than just enough to save the game.

ciane · January 2018

In can also mean that you were in Edit Town mode at the time of the save.

igazor · January 2018

Karritz wrote: »

The Sims 3 needs free disk space to run properly too. Make sure you have plenty of Free disk space. You'll need more than just enough to save the game.

Yes, definitely this.

Many seem to be skipping over what the original problem was here. The player had an Error 16 upon trying to save because they ran out of drive space. If Windows and the game are installed on the same drive, there needs to be at least 10-15% free space in order for things to even have a chance to function correctly and at no time, whether the game is running already or not, should free space ever be below around 30 GB (on most drives, depending on some other variables). When things are cut too close or the game and Windows itself does not have enough free space in which to maneuver, all kinds of unwanted and unexpected things can happen.

A hard drive running something as dynamic (ever changing) like the operating system or the game is not like a refrigerator, you can't fill it to capacity and expect things to still work right.

JoAnne65 · January 2018

I sort of concluded that since they quit without saving and the date of this save is older, that this was a previous save (before the error). And empty icons as such don’t necessarily mean a save is corrupted. I wonder if the OP has tried to open it by now.

thesimmer14 · January 2018

I haven't opened it still. Just started a new one. Thanks for your responses, though.

mw1525 · January 2018

@thesimmer14

Hi.

Just a little more insight into error 16 should it happen again (I have dealt with this one on a rather frequent basis).

EA lists the error as 'undefined', which mean 'something' occurred which stopped the save from progressing normally, sometimes its a near full disk and sometimes its not (my drive is mostly empty and I occasionally still get the error). When this pops up, generally using the 'Save As' will resolve the issue, so there's no need to abandon your game or chalk it up to a loss.

Here's a couple of links for a bit more info into the various errors:

Crinrict:
https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/03/error-save-errors-error-12-13-or-16.html

The Sims Wiki:
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Save_game_error

-Happy Simming!

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