Yes, you should write "DirectoryFiles unpacedmod autoupdate" after those PackedFile lines IN your resource.cfg. Do not change the name of the resource.cfg file.

Ditto. I'm a slow player
So EA did the same fail as in Sims 3, deleting random sims left & right. Meh, not surprised at all Thank you MasterDinadan, my sims are safe thanks to you.

How do you now if any households in the neighborhood have disappeared? I don't play premades, i have no idea where they're supposed to be, so i wouldn't notice if they were missing ._. I play 1 custom household, but i'd like to know if something shady went down already so i can backup my own sims.

From what I read, the biggest sign of disappearing sims is in the manage worlds => World map => Manage households. That page supposedly will still list all the families but their picture will be empty, because the sims are missing. Another user even posted a picture of her 'unplayed sim' tab totally empty. I checked all my tabs and they seem filled to the brim so yeah, they're not supposed to be empty at all.

There's still the case of unrelated townies being deleted by the second function tho, crossing my fingers that this one be nuked too. I don't want my sims to lose their friends/lovers/nemesis.

I lost the family I had been playing since I got the game Loaded the save game(correct date and everything) and they where suddenly back to the beginning in an unfurnished house and no kids...

This is so disturbing. Thanks for looking into it.

Not sure if someone already shared this, but there's a way to find a more recent backup: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/dis...-back-your-save it worked for me!

EA has no respect for players. First thing, they ought to have a much higher population cap than the 180 range. It should be something akin to 10,000. I have 6,000 Sims on my TS2 Mega hood. I do imagine and hope they would up the limit with each added town and expansion pack. Thank you for the mod and I hope it fixes my game. I had my Sansa Stark Sim disappear last night while I was playing the Lannisters. I'd rather the useless, ugly townies get removed than my Sims. I hope your mod has fixed this. I had to put her back in from my library and manually re edit all her ties to people.

I've already tried that and it didn't work. Thanks though.

I've been victim of this bug many times as I am trying to create generations of my own neighbourhood families.

First I lost my main sim's supposed boyfriend to this bug. Then his brother and nephew this morning. Also his son's boyfriend's brother sucked into nothingness by this bug.

While it sucks to lose sims I've played/planned, it is kinda feels like real life, things happen and people you know are no more. There are less reasons to die on Sims 4 anyway.

It would be nice to have a fix tho'.

I don't know if it is related or not so don't want to lead anyone into wild goose chase but I think from my memory all the missing sims had red plumbobs last I've seen them.

I have had this happen to me no matter what settings I use.
Someone though mentioned to me a way around it.
When saving the game, click "Save as" then label it with the family you are playing with. So what happens is that yeah theyll keep disappearing, but if you save all of your families differently like this way then it won't matter. It means that like the neighborhood isn't so much a neighborhood and my boyfriend can play without really messing my game up at all.
I dont know if I like it better this way.
I dont know yet.
I think no because I don't like sharing my game with him regardless,and now i dont have an excuse not to. LOL

Also, Im really glad you guys are talking about this.
All the other sim groups I'm in have told me I was making this up and I was either just crazy or stupid.
Now I see I am definitely not the only one.................