I just lost THREE MONTHS of gameplay because of corrupted save. I am so devastated. It was easily my favorite family so far. I'm going to try to cheat the crap out of the last save I have access to to make it as close as I can get to where I was. In the meantime, can anyone tell me how to backup my saves so this doesnt happen again? Literally y'all my heart dropped into my stomach
"Don't wish...Don't start.
Wishing only wounds the heart."
Origin ID: Simintoxication
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Since I know I'm most likely going to have hundreds of saves and I want to be able to sort them in order I use the same file name prefix for every save. Such As IP_Household then I add the numeric suffix. The first save might be called IP_Household001.sims3 and the 10th save would be IP_Household010.Sims3 and so on when I get to the 100th save it would be IP_Household100.sims3.
You don't have to keep all of your saves if you don't want to go back to every one of them so you can pick 5 or 10 numbers and cycle through them - or just delete the earlier ones once you're sure you don't want the keep them.
I always only have a few of the saves in my Saves folder. The Rest get moved out to a different backup folder that might be on my PC or on and external hard drive. Wherever it is saved I can always put it back into my active Saves folder whenever I need it.
I've recently come across some old saves I had burned to a DVD. They are from June and July 2009. It was a lot of fun to open them up again and see my old sims in action.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
All in all, the best way to keep track of your saves is using "save as..." instead of "save". You may end up with heaps of saves, but you can choose which ones you'll backup (I don't back up them all). I also use Save Cleaner to make sure that the file will be light, but it can delete your paintings and photos.
Don't give up, everything will be fine!
Good Luck in getting your game back to where it was.
Wherever I am friends call me Betty
Sim enim est vita
It might be worth a try to see if you can salvage your save first before restarting or re-doing it.
I had that happen to me a few times but I save some of my favorite sims to my bin or in CAS so they end up living again in new saves. Still not the same though, especially when all the family connections are lost.
Wishing only wounds the heart."
Origin ID: Simintoxication
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Wishing only wounds the heart."
Origin ID: Simintoxication
When a save is corrupted by the way, you can save all the sims that matter to you (your household and eventual family members and friends living elsewhere) to the bin. Start a brand new game and put everybody in there. All their skills and possessions/inventory will still be there, as are their relationships within one household. You can restore family ties outside your household using NRaas Mastercontroller.