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Help with Old Save Files
Brd709
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Yesterday i found some old saves on an external hard drive from 2015 however they are back ups using from what i presume is from the Windows file history backup. They are named like this:
I have tried copying and pasting them from the external hard drive in to the saves folder but they are not showing up when i click on load game.
I have tried copying and pasting them from the external hard drive in to the saves folder but they are not showing up when i click on load game.
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The ones with ver0, ver2, etc. are the backups. Ver0 is the most recent save, and ver4 is the older for that slot number.
However, I wouldn't put those in your saves folder unless you change the last number (the 1 in this case). If you already have a save with the same slot number, Windows will replace it.
You can choose one, change the slot number to something that isn't already in your Saves folder, and it should work.
I’m guessing that the reason they are all named Slot_00000001 is because you’ve made backups on your hard disk or external hard drive and not because the game used to name the files differently (although I could of course be mistaken
Anyway, before renaming your old file(s), you need to check what the files in your current save folder are called so that you don’t choose a “name” that is already being used. The game won’t be able read two files with the same name and may also overwrite one with the other. So if you already have a save called e.g. Slot_00000001.save, you can’t rename the file you want to transfer Slot_00000001.save, it has to be something different. I’ve read that some people say, the file name has to have 8 digits, but on this example from EA on how to restore a previous save, they actually go up to 9 in the example they provide (https://help.ea.com/ca/help/the-sims/the-sims-4/how-to-restore-a-previous-saved-game-in-the-sims-4/). You can use digits (1-9) and in my folder I also have saves that end in a lower case letter. However, it’s stated here https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/How-do-I-combine-my-old-save-files-with-my-new-save-files/td-p/8911145 that the letters go from a to f - I’ve no idea how files are named beyond that.
Hope you manage to get your saves transferred so that they work
Oh, and you might very possibly need to copy your old tray file as well in order for the sims and builds from your old save(s) to show up. But someone else probably knows the answer to this better than me.
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I don't see where it would cause a problem if you removed it. If you don't, it won't show up in game.
You could always save your 2015 or 2021 to your Library and move them into the other's save, and find out. Maybe they'll be good friends. Maybe they'll be enemies.