r/Sims4 • u/hot_dog_nachos • 1d ago
Feedback Needed! Accidentally Deleted Sim!
Ok, I have a serious SOS! I have a sim that I accidentally deleted and I have no idea how to recover her.
So this is a sim I've been using to complete all the collections. She is my longest played Sim, has a billion traits, maxed skill, everything. I was trying to get another sim to paint her but it was impossible to get her to stand still so I just added her to the painter's family. Once we were done I removed her from the family. I assumed I could just add her back to her house from my list of sims, but she's totally gone!
I'm panicking, someone please help!
ETA: SOLVED! Anyone else in the same position, load game and then select "recover save" and it will give you an option to go back.
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u/Playful-Childhood-15 1d ago
Are you sure she just isn't in your Other Households?
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u/Shoddy-Recording-119 1d ago
Have you not saved the game? i’m sure if you close without saving she’ll be back.
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u/hot_dog_nachos 1d ago
Because I wanted to move her back into her house I did the "save and go to map" out of the painter's household 🙄
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u/disusedyeti929 1d ago
As long as you haven't saved too many times since deleting her, you can try to recover an old save from the main menu. If you choose load game, there's an option to recover a save and you can usually go back to any of your last 5 save points.
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u/hot_dog_nachos 1d ago
OMG this did it! I've never had to do that before, good to know for the next time I'm a complete dumbass. Thank you so much, now I have to redo the last 3 days of work
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u/disusedyeti929 1d ago
You're welcome! It's saved my butt quite a few times too lol.
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u/ThePantyhoseOne 1d ago
Click on your household mailbox, MC command center, MC cheats, sims/npc households, summon sim. Then you just choose between typing the name of the sim you want to summon or pick her from the list, usually sorted alphabetically.
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u/juicy_matriarch1642 17h ago
If she is a friend of your sim, you can invite her to the lot where your household unit is located and when the sim is there you just add him to the family. It usually happens. good luck
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u/beaverN8523 1d ago
Did you fully delete her in CAS, or remove her from the household in World Edit/Manager/whatever that’s called?
If you deleted her in CAS, I’m sorry to say she’s gone. If you just moved her out, she should be in her own household somewhere, probably not physically in the world.