Reading the posts about the new updates not playing nicely with some OS's and the planned obsolescence that caught people off guard as well, much sympathy to those affected. I think most of us have lost important data or files at one time or another and it stinks every time.
This is a friendly reminder to everyone that it is a really good idea to make a backup copy of your Saved Games folder and place the copy outside of your Sims game folders. It may help save you from catastrophic computer failure, updates that go wrong and/or other types of unexpected borkedness. Your saved game copy may not always be up to date but it may help keep you from losing everything.
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i have never backed it up
I’ve never been good at backing up my saves and mods, but after all that I’m trying to get better at remembering to do it. I even made a new folder just for backups (i used to just put them on my desktop which was not a good idea)
Just go into your game folder via the documents and right click on the entire folder, select copy and then paste it where you wish. You can also do the same with any file inside the main folder to create a backup. It's so easy, even this creeping up on age 65 year old can do it.
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Are updates always announced before they hit? Origin and TS4 always just surprise me with one while I'm launching.
Origin updates aren't, but TS4 patches tend to be the week before a pack releases or at the beginning of a month lately.
I leave my game with auto-updating off just so it doesn't start updating without me choosing to do so.
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There's a fix for that, you can turn off Origin's auto-updates and select: User Installs Updates (After Safely Removing Mods Folder and Backing Up Save Games) option, that should help keep you from being surprised by updates.
I always create copies before updates and before the installation of new packs. Have never had an issue before, but better safe than sorry!
Thanks for putting out this reminder for others.
Still, there was a whole year of lost data, but in that year I did nothing more than small challenges. Gosh, talk about lesson well learned. And speaking of that reminds me...
Thanks for this thread btw.
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Do you mean you don't know how to turn off the Origin auto-updates or that you aren't sure how to create a back up save file or something else?
You no backup saves types give me a nervous twitch. lol
in general I just don't care that much like if my saves wipe out i can always start new saves
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Sorry, I should have specified. I don't know how to back up my saves.