| How to... > Restore one sim from a backup? | ||
| shirley87 |  posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 1:12 pm | |
Member since: 2010-09-02 Posts: 1 | I was playing my hood today and noticed that one of my deceased sims had dissapeared from the family tree, as a result his offspring are now no longer linked to the rest of the family. All the memories they have of him do not have his name but '$subject'. So obviously this sims character file got shredded somehow...
I recently removed over 800 townies etc. from my game (the proper way - first deleting them in-game with the MATY lot debugger, then deleting the relevant data in SimPE, and finally removing their character files) and experienced no problems whatsoever after this. I might have accidentally deleted this particular sim but then wouldn't the memories of him have to be gone too?
Anyway, I don't know how it happened exactly, but I was hoping there is a way to get him back. Not because I like that particular sim so much but rather to prevent my game from exploding if/when the memories of '$subject' spread through gossip or something.
I made tons of backups, but I can only find the sim in the backup I made before I deleted all those townies. So here's my question: Can I copy the character file for this sim from my backup to my current hood? If so, would I have to clean this sim up first (delete all his memories, relations, etc.) and build him back up after I've added him to my current hood? | |
| Ghost | posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:42 pm | |
 Member since: 2006-03-19 Posts: 775 | Since you were cleaning townies out of the neighborhood and sims are prone to meeting them, you probably would need to clean him out since he probably saw at least one of the sims you removed. I don't know about that, though. But as long as the character number isn't in use by a sim you want to keep, you can copy the character file from the backup to the regular game to restore the sim. (To answer the un-asked question, If the game has already reassigned the number to a sim you like, you need to decide which one you like better.... Only one can use the number.) | |