Hello! So ive been posting recently about my game not working and i finally was able to fix it thanks to the help i received, however it appears to have corrupted many of my saves including a save file with every custom sim ive been working on ( sims i make through requests and donations ) but somehow when i was fixing my game, my saves no longer allow me to load into them. Ex: Load a save, it gets in and it starts loading but once the bar goes fully green indicating its about to load you in, the game fully closes and crashes.

Is there a way i can extract the family i was playing last in that save without having to load into it?

Did you save them to your bin when you were in edit town at any point?
If you did they should be in your Library Folder

How would you do this? I'm super curious. I just opened a previous save NHD with S3PE and I don't see any Simo/Snap or any of those things I see when I open a world..Which makes me wonder if I take another world and just remove the files for the townies and put my own in (when I'm altering a world) if the families in the houses are packed differently. So I'm curious how you find this data in the NHD.

SIME (export) are found in TravelDB, SIMO (outfit) are in the export packages of each world visited and SNAP's are in the NHD. EA does not to make anything easy to find. I personally have not found a tool to look inside of the SIME files, to know which Sim you are looking at. TravelDB opens with s3pe, but either I don't have the wrapper set up correctly, or there isn't one to open a SIME?

IF you are making Sims that you share (requests and donations), how did you share them? They should all be found in Export folder, as sims3pack. I usually save my customized Sims to the bin while in CAS, and those show in both CAS and world edit.

Excellent thanks for the information. They do not make anything easy at all. I just more recently stuck my fingers in CAW and messing around with some worlds I have wanted to make changes to and this had me curious if it was to find families in a save. I usually export them to my bin and library so I can import them in EIG in CAW.

I didn't save them to the bin sadly

Ill look into trying to do it with s3pe!

Thank u all for the help! Im currently just trying to find .sim files to see if i can restore them that way

I looked at that as well. Determined that CAW is not my friend! Recently on LL, someone discussed taking a Sim on vacation to a world, do not play, making changes to townies and lots, delete that Sim, Nraas total rest and save. Then separate the NHD from that save, put it in a folder to store it... Then, just drop the NHD into whatever save you are playing, and go there. I have sort of gotten it to work, but my Sim still knew everyone, so I guess switch households and use some random NPC as the travel Sim.

I also have perhaps 300 saved Sims in my bin. No, I am NOT accessive!

Out of curiosity, did you delete all of your old saves in that series? Or the other no-no, which is to constantly overwrite saves, instead of using "save as"???

Deleting is the worst thing. If you have an older save, or even one that says .backup, you can just remove ".backup" from that save to make it current and accessible. Maybe you can pull you family from an older save?

In town edit mode, you can save the entire family to bin, with all changes made to the point of that save. Nraas Porter can save the family, and retain relationships.

I always save a Sim to bin if I like him or her. I remade many townies, and when I travel, will replace them as my Sims meet them.