

I myself have been troubled by this before. Just for the record: A common trouble that can result in a savefile corruption is a problem with the world cache (stylishly named "save error 12"). Crashes happen, and so does file corruption. Some of us are setting ourselves up for disaster by playing for hours and only saving when we exit. Rolling back to a backup save will inevitably lose you some progress. Due to the fact that you have to load a backup if your saved game gets corrupted, we can only recommend that you save the game as frequently as you can tolerate. Now, when you enter the game menu, you should be able to load your backed up save game. sims3 folder is gone, right click and rename the backup folder to WHATEVERITWAS.sims3 (removing the extra. Once you have safely copied the folders, delete the main. Something off of Documents or My Documents could be a good idea. Put them in a folder (right click white space and choose paste) where you know you can find them. sims3.backup folder and move them to another folder by right clicking the folders once highlighted and selecting copy. I recommend you drag a box and select both the normal. There will also be X.sims3.backup folders, which are the previous save you made in the game for that particular family.

sims3 file extension is what the launcher detects, unless the file is corrupt, the X is the name of the saved game). The most recent save is saved as X.sims3 (the. The folder name is the name of the saved game that you see in the launcher. Inside that folder, you'll find all your save game data folders.
#HOW TO DELETE SPIN TIRES GAME SAVES WINDOWS#
In Windows XP, the folder is found at C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves In Vista, head to your Documents folder (C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves If you need the absolute paths to the saved game files they're here: The folder where the Sims 3 saved games are stored can be accessed by either going to My Documents in XP or simply Documents in Vista, then going into the Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves Directory. After a little walkthrough, I'd like to share with you the steps we took to recover her legacy. We tracked down the problem as the save file being corrupted. In her case, the save file was not even present in the game launcher. This can present itself in multiple ways. Recently a problem presented itself, and a friend lost an entire legacy to a corrupted save file.
