This is really frustrating....when I moved my family into the Alto mansion, I had some Money Tree seeds, and Omni Plant seeds in a Jiangzhou's chest, along with the uncut gems I store in it. When we moved, the seeds just disappeared, though the gems were all there. Also, I had a Chest of Alouette that I used to store several perfect specimens of every type of fruit/vegetable in the game. Upon moving, everything in there disappeared save for two Life Fruits and two Flame Fruits. At least I also have perfect fruits and vegetables in the fridge as well, and in one of my Sim's inventories.
I can just order more Omni Plant seeds, so it's not much of an issue there, but I really liked having those money tree seeds for backup. I guess I'll have to raid the area surrounding the graveyard for Special seeds again. Argh.
It makes it worse because I had to move hundreds of items out of my family inventory, which took hours. Remind me to never move again, or at least not without selling everything...but there's no way I was going to give up my cut gems, almost a complete set.
Also, this is unrelated to the original question, but I figure I might as well post all my technical gripes in one topic, rather than clutter up the board with another one: do you all experience a slowdown in loading time of really old games? The game I use the most has had hundreds of hours put into it, and at the screen that shows the lot and the family, the load bar just sits there for maybe a minute or so, then finally progresses and loads. I don't have this issue with newer games. Is this just something that happens to old games, and is perfectly normal? Sometimes it will load a little faster, but especially when I start it up for the first time in the morning, it takes forever.