This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage
All my sims disappeared (Super Collection)
I run The Sims 2 Super Collection from my Mac OS High Sierra (10.13.6). I had left my game on overnight by accident, and when I clicked on the game from the dock it took forever to load so I went ahead and hit Force Quit. Didn't think much of it. I went to reboot the game a few times but it seemed to be taking a very long time to load, again I hit Force Quit. I thought the issue might be some CC i downloaded yesterday, so I went and removed those files from my downloads folder. Made no difference.
After rebooting my computer I opened the game up again and it started up as normal (granted, it is always a bit slow but) once I got into my hood, it looks like every single sim has disappeared, except for Townies or children of Townies. The only Non-townie sim left is one of the first CAS sims I made when I started this hood(I think she is the first sim I made actually.)
Many families are gone except for their pets, or completely disappeared (nothing left but vacant lots. Objects and things have been left behind, but they are sim-less and are up for sale.) All the missing sims are missing from relationships of the leftover sims. The only trace I can find are in memories where a sim will have a memory such as "$Subject graduated from college!" etc. All missing sims names have been replaced with $Subject.
Looking at my folders, in The Sims 2 > Neighborhoods > N002 > Characters, I do see 411 User .package files, which I assume would include my non-townie sims, but correct me if I'm wrong. I would say I had about 150+ non-Townie sims.
My question is:
1) Is there any way to recover my lost sims? I.E. why did they disappear?
2) I have plenty of community lots and things I would like to save even if I can't save my sims. Would it be safe to copy my old lots into a new neighborhood, or would these lots now be possibly corrupted?
3) Is there any way I can check for corruption given that I am using a Mac? I can't seem to find much information on this.
I know this probably all happened because I'm a dingus and got too cocky with the Force Quit. :/ But I would really be overjoyed if this isn't the end. I've been playing these families for 2 years now, gen 3 was about to head off to college so it's kinda sad to lose all my hard work. (I haven't backed up my files in a bit. again, dingus. I know.) Thanks!