Hello,
I have the NRaas Traveler mod, it is an amazing mod, it really helped me maintain my relationships while moving to a new town.

However, my save game has become so bloated that I can not move to another new town anymore (game crashes/freezes)

So, I was wondering, how can I "move" my relationship data and everything to a brand new save (a new save with the same family, i copied them to the library and everything)?

Thank you in advance!

I also tried NRaas Porter, but it gave me "Only one packed family was found, no need to unpack", can anybody please explain why? Sorry if its a stupid question btw.

Oh, Porter just port Sim families.

Just catching up here, but OP is receiving assistance from us at NRaas.

As far as I know, you can't merge saves. Traveling will bloat a game as more and more Sims and objects are added from each world. If one of the Nraas mods can help, I would love to know also, and maybe @Igazor knows something?

With NRaas Traveler, Overwatch, and ErrorTrap in play, the individual world data stays contained in the individual nhd files and the single TravelDB file. Sure the entire game save grows in size after a while but with care, save cleaning, and maintenance, not necessarily to the point where things become unplayable. My long-running game has 16 NRaas Traveler connected worlds in it, my sims travel like maniacs, and each save instance is currently weighing in at around 2.3 GB. The key though is that only the currently being simulated world among the group is ever loaded into RAM so the rest is just data that comes along for the ride and is there only if needed. Certainly none of my individual world nhd files within the save are that large as I take action if they ever go above 350 MB or so.

The other key is don't let more and more sims get added to each world without any being removed. Population control is important to keep an eye on.

@Igazor, population control is probably the biggest issue. I have the mods mentioned, and several more... Still, I can clean saves, and end up over 400 MB, and things slow to a grind, after enough travel.

Not to hijack this thread, as it was about trying to merge saves, but... After cleaning, my biggest current save is 427 MB total, that includes 5 travel worlds and my homeworld (Moonlight Falls), which I understand to have it's own issues. I also delete the individual export packages... NOT TravelDB, when cleaning. Load time has never been the issue. Longest may be 10 mins, with HDD. My situation may be somewhat unique from most, regarding CC. Of the 7.22 GB in my mods folder, nearly 1.7 GB is loose test packages that I am working on and haven't made a decision whether to ever upload, continue working on, or scrap. A few MB of stuff I downloaded. Was close to 9 GB mods folder, but I cleaned up a couple months ago. Then there's the 3 GB of hair packages, merged into 3 packages. Might be more.

Do not use dereferencing, as I read (probably here) that it can cause some problem, not sure if it was with KW or no. Most of the KW warnings about Nraas mods are easy enough to work around and keep Nraas.

As for KW, I'm the same LadySmoks once on LL and now NSFW, so I am ungodly familiar with the angsts of that mod. Build 409 is not too bad. I do not use half of the "features" anyway.

Reality is that my style of play is simply not good, and counter to most of your suggestions. Aside from general population control (I use Nraas MC total annihilation to remove ungreeted Sims and strays, and Register to limit NPC's), my fun is meet and greet, make friends and customize every other Sim in every world (dress in my test garments). More than 200 saved Sims! Basically got bored with WA after so many years, and have a bunch of download worlds, with a few favorites.

I have never seen a save folder more than 500 MB before becoming unplayable. As said, I have HDD. I hate the graphics on the laptop that is SSD. I had it look good, but I think MS hit me with an update when I wasn't looking. I rarely take the game laptop online. I'm typing on a cheap Lenovo travel laptop now. ))) But, load time isn't an issue... 5 mins normal and 10 mins max on any save. I did the unpark thing a while ago. May have helped. Also running LD's smooth patch and Simler's mod. Everything helps, and as they tell on the pages, not a cure all... but help. My machine specs can easily handle TS3. Been thru that a long time ago with min specs, and well above them.

The litterally hundreds of packages can be an issue for HDD, but usually only load times, which again, aren't really a problem. Occasional CTD and the analyzer says memory issue, but the Sims config settings, I manually changed to 4 GB for every EP and SP, not just for The Sims 3. OY! I'm all disk with super patch. If the saves are getting corrupted, I have no clue what is causing it.

And thanks... Still making stuff, but lazy about ever uploading. Still haven't uploaded all of my old stuff to NSFW, and have about 20 or more new packages in test.

Do not know what "LAA" is. The 2 caches were also done, but now not sure if done for all EP's and Sp's. I will have to take a longer look at that link. Thanks.