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I am all the way at level 8 of the painting career so there was no way I wanted to start over
I didn't realize that you said to find the one without the extension .ver at first and so nothing was changing. Then it took me forever to realize that I had so many saves it turned into letters like so ---> Slot_0000000f.ver0
It's possible. You can try it out.
Despite the fact the discussion hasn't been used in over a month, I have a question that I was hoping you could answer
Basically, my situation is that I accidentally overwrote (via save as) my legacy challenge that I've been working on for a while now with another one of my households. I deleted my previous save that had the family that overwrote my legacy challenge. I'm trying to get my legacy household back. I can sort of pin-point the last time I played, so firstly, would the previous save files still be there? I'm pretty sure they would, taking a little browse through there, but I'm not sure if those (the ones I found) are the ones that are from the legacy household or some other random one, and the point of me saying that was I was wondering if overwritten save files get deleted
Sorry if that sounded too complicated, I would be happy to clarify if you don't understand what exactly I am saying.
Unrelated family.save
Your legacy.save.ver0
I tested it out, and apparently you can rename your legacy backup to something like Slot_00000008.save, depending on the highest number you have. For example, if your highest save is Slot_00000006.save, you can rename your legacy backup (Slot_00000004.save.ver0) for example to Slot_00000007.save. The save file's name would be different, but you should see your legacy's family name among the save files.
I've overwritten the wrong save by accident. I was able to roll back to the overwritten save without a problem using exactly this method.
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@icmnfrsh & @luthienrising, thanks for the help! Strangely, it didn't work for me, when I tried... I took a few pictures to see if I was doing anything wrong? I may have been copying the wrong save? Nevertheless, no new saves popped up in my load game menu
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If it's worth any mention, when I renamed it, it did prompt me that it might not work (*might not be usable*), but as you can see it was still considered a SAVE file.
Edit: I don't think I am copying the wrong save anymore because counting the saves in my load game menu there are only 7 of them, and my saves folder has 8 (well now technically 9).
It may not be immediately obvious. When I tried this out, my recovered save had the name "Ghost", even though that was a name I gave to an unrelated save.
The "might not work" message is a generic warning that Windows gives. Changing file extensions does not alter the contents, but only changes how its contents are interpreted. So just ignore it.
Are you sure there are no more files ending in .ver0, etc.? Because this guide can only help if those backup files are there.
Ha ha, I just realized what happened... I did a closer inspection and noticed that I had restored a save that I had previously deleted!
Good to see it worked out for you.
Good to see it worked out for you.
Hmm...I guess you can try all the files. Can you post a screenshot of the files inside the folder? So that we have an idea of what we're working with?
Hmm...saves are supposed to have only numbers. 0000000a should be all numbers, like 00000003 or 00000004.
Okay so, I did the thing with a save and now I'm booting the game back up.
So did it work?
You're seriously the best person who ever lived and if benes were still a sims forum thing I'd give you all of them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Haha, well that's a relief on your part.
Now I'm just feeling nostalgic for the old BBS. I wish they never took down the old websites.
I've seen a number of people confused and even basically ready to give up because they thought all the sub-saves were simply clones of their latest save.
Thanks for pointing that out. I never would have thought of that.
Thank you, now I know how the saves function.
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So, not sure if anyone's mentioned but after installing the latest September 24 patch my game was kind of reseted. My library was empty and absolutely no saved games (You know, the button was missing). I don't remember checking my save files at the time, so I don't know if it was completely empty. After the reset I created a new sim and started a new game so there should be some files now. However, they seem to be quite a lot to me and with different dates. I was wandering if there was a way to recover my previous games. I tried what you mention in the original post for most dates with my game open, nothing seemed to work. Here's a picture of my saves folder:
They are about 57 saves, not all shown in the picture.
Any help appreciated.