Shadow ha scritto:

Lorea ha scritto:You saved me and my lost game!
I start a sad topic about my lost game and now I could solve this with your help!
Thank you very much! You are helpful and selfless, so you are simple great

You're welcome!
And I had just posted in your thread.

Lorea ha scritto:

Shadow ha scritto:

Lorea ha scritto:You saved me and my lost game!
I start a sad topic about my lost game and now I could solve this with your help!
Thank you very much! You are helpful and selfless, so you are simple great

You're welcome!
And I had just posted in your thread.

And I answered to your post.

diddydanni ha scritto:Hi Shadow,

Ive just loaded the Sims 3 to find that my entire family i recently created has been wiped. Completely. Along with other families, lots & the listed downloaded content: hairstyles, the free town Riverview, a few sets that i got from the Sims Store.. pretty much basically everything ive created & downloaded. When i got to the main menu it was like starting the game for the first time again, giving me no options for playing selecting my created families, just straight onto Sunset Valley from the drop down menu, also no Riverview town as i mentioned before on the drop down menu. Ive had no problems with the game before, no errors, crashes or anything like that. This has only happened once, that my data has been wiped, & only since i started getting the updates & updating. Also i checked my The Sims 3 folder to look for the saved games folder, & its not there. Am guessing that got wiped too along with my saves. Really not to happy about this right now, & i was wondering if you could help me please?

Sorry for the long rant, just really annoyed cus this has never happened before. Not before the updates anyway.

Thanks

Shadow ha scritto:Have you ever loaded your game to find your saved game missing, or error code 13 while saving and lost your progress? To retrieve your saved game, do the following:

Finding Your Saves Folder
1. Go to My Documents.
2. Electronic Arts
3. The Sims 3
4. Saves

After that, find your saved game's name. If you named your game Sunset Valley, you should see:
Sunset Valley.sims3
Sunset Valley.sims3.backup

Instructions
Rename Sunset Valley.sims3.backup to Sunset Valley.sims3
Delete Sunset Valley.sims3

If you have a file that ends with .bad, delete that. Anything that ends with .bad, delete.

Start up your game, and your town will be back. The game will auto generate another backup file. If you don't have a backup file, all you need to do is just delete SunsetValley.bad, and your saved game should return.


Conclusion
Since this is a PC only tutorial, I can't do Mac as I'm not familiar with with it. I'm sure someone such as Lawertend, or Unsecretcrush can help out if you're on Mac.

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Troubleshooting/FAQ's
Question:
I don't have a SIMS3 file, but I do have a backup file. What can I do?
Answer:
Try making a copy of your backup file, and then renaming it to end with .sims3.

Question:
There are only two files - .sims3, and .bad. What do I do?
Answer:
Delete your .bad file. Don't worry about having no backup file. The game will regenerate one, automatically.

LoonyNoodle ha scritto:OK, it's 1.34am and this error has just happened to me.

Not happy as i've been playing for hours and now want to go to bed.

I followed the instructions as per this thread ane it didn't seem to work, however;

I deleted the .BAD files as said and still couldn't save, so i went to town mode, it asked me whether i wanted to save, i clicked yes - it failed. Then i tried again this time clicking no just continue.

Town mode came up and my house was still there, so i saved game. It saved fine in town mode.

Then i went back to continue game, so far all fine. I then saved - IT WORKED.

I finally saved and quit (just to be extra sure) and hoorah it's worked!

And it's loaded up fine.

Jack95970002 ha scritto:Shadow, you are the gaming version of Jesus... except you're not a fairy tale. Thank you so very much. Months of work lost and then retrieved. Thanks, man.

theworldamishap4 ha scritto:hi...ummmm...ok sooo i saved a file but i accidentally left the file name as rivierview instead of changing it to like my families name...so my friend created her own sim in riverview and we accidentally saved it as that...i was sooo sad cause i worked soo hard on my sims...so i went to documents, ea etc. but when i got there it was different i had two riverview.sims3 under name but under type one said BACKUP File and the other said SIMS3 File...so now i dont no wat to do... but i no there the different families cause the backup says last modified at 7:16pm (when i last saved my family) and the other said last modified at 12:04 am (when we saved her family)...wat can i do to get my familiy back...she had just started hers so shee said its okay if she starts overrr i am sooo sadddd please help thnx and srry itss sooooooo long =[ =[

Shadow ha scritto:

theworldamishap4 ha scritto:hi...ummmm...ok sooo i saved a file but i accidentally left the file name as rivierview instead of changing it to like my families name...so my friend created her own sim in riverview and we accidentally saved it as that...i was sooo sad cause i worked soo hard on my sims...so i went to documents, ea etc. but when i got there it was different i had two riverview.sims3 under name but under type one said BACKUP File and the other said SIMS3 File...so now i dont no wat to do... but i no there the different families cause the backup says last modified at 7:16pm (when i last saved my family) and the other said last modified at 12:04 am (when we saved her family)...wat can i do to get my familiy back...she had just started hers so shee said its okay if she starts overrr i am sooo sadddd please help thnx and srry itss sooooooo long =[ =[

Finding Your Saves Folder
1. Go to My Documents.
2. Electronic Arts
3. The Sims 3
4. Saves

After that, find your saved game's name. If you named your game Sunset Valley, you should see:
Sunset Valley.sims3
Sunset Valley.sims3.backup

Instructions
Rename Sunset Valley.sims3.backup to Sunset Valley.sims3
Delete Sunset Valley.sims3

If you have a file that ends with .bad, delete that. Anything that ends with .bad, delete.

Start up your game, and your town will be back. The game will auto generate another backup file. If you don't have a backup file, all you need to do is just delete SunsetValley.bad, and your saved game should return.

theworldamishap4 ha scritto:**** thnxx but ummm srrry but uhhh mine is set up likee this


name:Riverview.sims3 type:SIMS3 File
name:Riverview.sims3 type:BACKUP File

so now im not sure wat too dooo cause when i right click and press rename it only lets me rename name not type so shud i just delete the one i dont want or make the one i dont want Riverview.sims3.backup?? soooo srryyy bout thiss but thnxx soooo muchhh
p.s. there were also categories called date modified, size and tags but i guessed that thosee didnt matter...