I recently got back into Sims3 and I wanted to download some custom content and I couldn't make it work. I would open sims to check if the content was there but it wouldn't be. Did more research downloading more things (newbie mistake) and the next time I opened sims all my game content was gone. I checked my 'saves' folder (i have a mac by the way) and nothing was there. There was however, outside of the 'saves' folder, the [filename].sims3 and [filename].sims3.backup files that I was trying to look for but my game still wouldn't load them. I'm not sure if this can be fixed or if I have to start everything all over again. Which isn't too much of a big deal because it's just a game and I only got some good stuff going within the last week so it's not the end of the world, but it would be nice to have that content back.
Thanks!