I was ecstatic yesterday as I managed to play right up to where I wanted to be, in order to take a New Years photo for my legacy. I've been having a lot of problems recently that didn't allow me to play (overheating, and we needed a new fan which there kept on being problems with arriving) so this made me really happy. I went off to install the New Years items and then started my game again and continued to play, about four saves later I got an Error 12 not allowing me to save. I just shut down the game and had a look at my saves in the Sims 3 folder, and there was dreamer.sims3, (which is dated back in October!!) and dreamer.sims.bad! I also have a repeat of this for dreamer2 which is my second save, because I alternate between the two specifically not to let things like this happen. >_>
I tried to delete the .bad files and play with the dreamer.sims3 but they are dated months ago and I already had to replay a few chapters of my legacy because of having to factory reset my computer, so this is really not the way to go.
I restored the .bad files and renamed them to .sims3, dated yesterday, but the game would shut down to the desktop and I would get 'sims 3 is not working'.
Is there anyway I can fix this without having to play from September/October? It is going to be absolutely gutting if I need to play from then.
I copied my Sims 3 folder right after the error came up so I have a copy in my documents folder to try any techniques anyone suggests on.
Please help.