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I backup my neighbourhood every time I finish a household rotation (which is 3 days at the moment, though I plan to increase that to seasonal later on). I only keep the last three backups though because they get big even when I zip them up and I rarely need any further back than that.
I never install hood-resetting hacks mid-rotation, so if I somehow break something, the most I ever have to go back is to the beginning of the rotation. Though if I break something and try to troubleshoot before restoring I'll make an extra backup.
I've restored some four or five times, either because I broke something or just regretted some decisions. I've also restored just a single lot before, though this is tricky (and something I made an extra backup for).
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However, I always back up before using the Hood Checker - it never gave me any problems, but it's a precaution I like to take.
On the other hand, I never go back if something goes wrong (that's why in this particular save I lost both Brandi and Cassandra lol) so I never have to put them back, unless is something technical.
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I've been saved by backups several times, and it's always nice to have a recent one at hand (plus maybe some older ones, just in case the bug started before your most recent backup). Once, my game flashed pink when I got to the neighborhood view (it's never done that before - only happens after a long play session), and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I had a recent enough backup, fortunately.
Doing backups in general is also very useful. Both my computers are seemingly at death's door at the moment (the desktop probably has a motherboard+RAM issue, and the laptop has been plagued with a dead battery, random bluescreens and other bugs since earlier this year), so having a recent backup of everything on both of them is probably the smartest thing I did when I noticed the first bugs. I have one of the entire desktop computer, plus I now take backups fairly regularly (trying to keep it at maximum 2 weeks in between, trying to do it once a week or mroe often) on the laptop. Just in case it dies before I can swich computers...
I have bugged out on backups before - my first computer dragged it out before it suddenly wouldn't turn on at all, and I lost some of the more recent files. I did have backups of most of the files, just not all. They may be recoverable, though I'm not entirely sure how.
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If it's not the hard drive that's fried, you can get an external casing and plug it into another computer. |
I know that's possible with the laptop. I just don't know how to get the harddrive out of there and how to clean out Windows (I've head that's neccessary). Fairly sure it's the power supply (the laptop wouldn't even budge when plugging it in). If it's not, it may be the motherboard. The screen kept going black randomly when playing Sims, and the last time I played the game slowed to a crawl (took 5 minutes from I clicked to something happened on the screen - but everything else worked sort of normally for a short while later). Haven't turned it on since late 2010-2011-ish, I think, but it's been in a closed computer bag ever since, so it shouldn't be any more dusty inside now than it was. Probably should get that thing seen to sometime soon...
On the stationary the harddrive is separate, so it can probably be reused if I get a new stationary (but again with the Windows issue - I do have a backup of the files alone though, so it's not that big a problem.
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I know that's possible with the laptop. I just don't know how to get the harddrive out of there and how to clean out Windows (I've head that's neccessary). |
There should be no need to remove Windows. Remove the harddrive from the old computer, take the harddrive out of the new computer and put your old harddrive in there instead. Viola! As long as nothing really is wrong with your harddrive.
You should be able to look up instructions on how to remove the harddrive if you know your computer's make - for example, when I was looking up how to install RAM I found YouTube videos showing how to take out every part of the computer. After that, you just need a magnetized screwdriver, probably a jeweler's screwdriver or one of a similar size. You should be able to buy a doohickey to magnetize the screwdriver at a hardware store.
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There should be no need to remove Windows. Remove the harddrive from the old computer, take the harddrive out of the new computer and put your old harddrive in there instead. Viola! As long as nothing really is wrong with your harddrive. |
No, don't do that! Your system configuration, including all the drivers and shit, is on the hard drive. If you just swap them out chances are you'll just end up not being able to boot. Attach it as a secondary instead.
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You never want to detach a main drive from the working computer-it is the functional drive of that computer with all the drivers and OS.
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You never want to detach a main drive from the working computer-it is the functional drive of that computer with all the drivers and OS. |
Unless the laptop won't turn on, or the stationary can't be easily updated because the motherboard and RAM is what needs replacing (plus all the old parts that probably won't go with a new motherboard, because that computer is over 9 years old, and practically a fossile by now - as far as I understood, the only parts I can transfer to a new computer is the chassis, harddrive (without the OS), possibly the DVD drive, keyboard, maybe the screeen although it's got some "ghost image" problems, and... that's about it)
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If I am not playing the game as much, every three months.
If I am trying a mod or fix, right before I install it. Ditto for any new eye sets; especially geneticized.
If I am futzing with terrain, adding a new subhood or vacation hood, or doing anything that could potentially corrupt a hood, I back up just the hood in question.
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Not often enough it seems.
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(My rotations are: 2 days in each college household, 1 day in each household in any other subhood and the main hood.)
I backup, run the HoodChecker and then go into SimPE and edit whatever I feel the need to edit (usually household names, because I don't like having half a dozen households with the same name).
It's also my preferred time to add any CC, specially mods. Just in case.
But to be honest I don't think I use those backups very often. Only if a mod does something obviously weird.
If the hood crashes (for some corruption seeminly crept into it despite my loving care) I usually see it as a sign to say goodbye (because you never know if the recent backups are damned anyway) and start a new hood.
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I just turn it on whenever I want to backup my Sims game, so there is an extra copy of my game always there.
I only backup my game if there is a major change within a Sims household like a new baby, Sims get married, or if my Sims reach their career goal things like that.
I also keep text as to the last time I updated my game with Month and day.
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Back up your game is extremely a must, Like member FranH I have an external drive about the size of a book that sat on my desk top computer. I just turn it on whenever I want to backup my Sims game, so there is an extra copy of my game always there. I only backup my game if there is a major change within a Sims household like a new baby, Sims get married, or if my Sims reach their career goal things like that. I also keep text as to the last time I updated my game with Month and day. |
I back up every time I quit playing, and at this point it is probably once per day.
I keep two back ups on an external drive that is also the source for my automatic backups using Time Machine. I most recently reverted to my most recent back up sometime last week I think it was, and it was because I accidentally put an occupied house in the Bin.
I have had to restart from the beginning before and I don't intend to do that again for some time yet, so I make lots of back ups.
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