Help get my game back please?

[ithadtobekaya]

Okay so I'd been playing on my sim girl a long time and she was doing excellent in egypt and all. I went to play on it today and I really fear my sister has saved her game over it. But I don't know how? her game is saved under a different name and instead of it just being saved once it comes up four times. I've done so well on this sim please help me get her back.
Otherwise i might have to kill my sister (:

[RockinRobin]

If you try to open your saved game, what happens? It could be that your sister just changed the active household, so that her last played sim comes up in the opening screen. Try to go ahead and open that one and in the Edit Town view, click on the button that let's you change the active household. Then click "choose household"......now look around in the town and see if you can find your sim. If you find her, click on her house and select that as your active family and you will find your existing game.

If that doesn't work......go back to the main menu and try opening one of the other saved games and try the same thing. Your game should still be there.....but it sounds like your sister may have just changed the active family so that your sim isn't the one who comes up in the opening screen.

[Pam]

Also, check this topic about how to recover a saved game.  If you know the name you originally saved the game under, you may be able to restore the previous back up of that game.

[ithadtobekaya]

I was thinking that, but my sister's person lives in Riverview whereas mine lives in Sunset Valley. So I can't go from Riverview to sunset (can i? :S)

[Metropolis Man]

I was thinking that, but my sister's person lives in Riverview whereas mine lives in Sunset Valley. So I can't go from Riverview to sunset (can i? :S)

Normally, yes you can. In your situation I'm not sure. This might help.

[Pam]

If your sister is playing in a different town, then she's playing with a completely different town.  As Metro says, it's possible to move from one town to the other, but it starts a whole new game file when you do.  Also, make sure that your game hasn't just scrolled out of view.  On the screen where you select which game you want to play, it shows only 4 slots for games, but if you have more than that, you just need to use the arrows on either side to scroll to the other games.  It took me awhile to figure that out.  If your game really isn't there, I think your best option is to try to recover the previous save of your game using the steps in my previous post.  Let us know if you manage to get your game back. 

[jmz95]

Yeah, my addition to what others have said is if her game shows up four times, she might have been using the save as function instead of regular save. Have you looked at all your save files and if you have, try going to:

My Documents (or just Documents on Vista, not sure what it is on a Mac) - Electronic Arts - The Sims 3 - Saves

Look at all the names and see if you can find yours. If you can, you may just have to recover the save, which the instructions have already been linked to in this thread. Hope this helps!