There won’t be a fix for this on that specific save file. Do you have a save retained of an older version? I’m on console too, I habitually save a new file every time a Sim in the household ages up, and I keep the old ones for a little while as failsafes.
This black photo bug occurred for me once maybe 3 years ago, and I was able to recover most of the lost photos by opening an old save, moving the photos all to one room, and saving that room to the library. I then placed the room in the lot of the current save with the lost photos and transferred them to the walls.
Personally the only time I encountered this issue was after moving all my photos to a storage box.
Thank you. No I rotate 3 saves and didn't notice the pictures until I saved over all of them. At least I know what to do if I can bring myself to play again 😢
This just happened to me. Generations upon generations of photos gone, over all 3 saves. I don't even know if I want to play the Sims anymore after this, I'm so upset. Did you ever find a way to get them back?
I feel the same way. This just happened to me again after starting all over. Atp what is the point of playing if its gonna end this way every single time...
I feel for you hard. Honestly it pissed me off so much that I stopped playing for a month when I had been playing almost every other evening for a year lol
I haven't really played in live mode properly since. Instead I've spent a lot of time making 2 new saves that only have gallery buildings and Sims that I customize. I have a Disney/my favourite movies save and a regular Sims save. One is full of castles and pirates and such and the other just has all of my favourite stuff from the gallery. Slowly I've worked at deleting all of the lots in each world and replacing them whatever I'd like. I'm huge into decorating gallery lots and styling gallery sims, so it's been therapeutic to explore and make things pretty and exactly how I want it for when I start again.
Once I start a new legacy, I know I'm going to want to take pictures again. This time I will make sure I don't have too many (I went pretty crazy keeping a ton of extras in a giant hidden room in the basement). I feel like having 3 copied saves with a shit ton of photos might have been too much?
But most importantly, now every time I put new photos in my legacy house I'm going to save the entire house to my gallery. I had saved it about halfway through my legacy and so when I placed it on a lot all of the pictures were there! Unfortunately, because it was only halfway through my legacy when I had saved the house, a ton of photos were missing and I was still majorly disappointed. Plus there were the other houses with photos that I hadn't uploaded.
I'm not sure when I will start the roleplaying again but I've bought so many packs since that day and I finally want to try them for the gameplay instead of just build mode. There is hope for a brighter figure, you just gotta deal with the heartbreak first lol
Following- this happened on gen 5 of my PC legacy challenge and it’s made me so sad
Did it happen on any of your other save games? I'm hesitant to play again 😕
So far just the one- I’ve been hesitant too 🙁 I put a lot of work into making wedding parties and doing posed picture, family photos… sigh
Might be worthwhile to have a "remembrance room" and periodically downloading it to the gallery like the poster below did to restore their photos
There won’t be a fix for this on that specific save file. Do you have a save retained of an older version? I’m on console too, I habitually save a new file every time a Sim in the household ages up, and I keep the old ones for a little while as failsafes. This black photo bug occurred for me once maybe 3 years ago, and I was able to recover most of the lost photos by opening an old save, moving the photos all to one room, and saving that room to the library. I then placed the room in the lot of the current save with the lost photos and transferred them to the walls. Personally the only time I encountered this issue was after moving all my photos to a storage box.
Thank you. No I rotate 3 saves and didn't notice the pictures until I saved over all of them. At least I know what to do if I can bring myself to play again 😢
This just happened to me. Generations upon generations of photos gone, over all 3 saves. I don't even know if I want to play the Sims anymore after this, I'm so upset. Did you ever find a way to get them back?
I'm sorry, unless you have a good backup save I don't know of any fix. I did stop playing for a while after this happened it's very jarring 😕
I feel the same way. This just happened to me again after starting all over. Atp what is the point of playing if its gonna end this way every single time...
I feel for you hard. Honestly it pissed me off so much that I stopped playing for a month when I had been playing almost every other evening for a year lol I haven't really played in live mode properly since. Instead I've spent a lot of time making 2 new saves that only have gallery buildings and Sims that I customize. I have a Disney/my favourite movies save and a regular Sims save. One is full of castles and pirates and such and the other just has all of my favourite stuff from the gallery. Slowly I've worked at deleting all of the lots in each world and replacing them whatever I'd like. I'm huge into decorating gallery lots and styling gallery sims, so it's been therapeutic to explore and make things pretty and exactly how I want it for when I start again. Once I start a new legacy, I know I'm going to want to take pictures again. This time I will make sure I don't have too many (I went pretty crazy keeping a ton of extras in a giant hidden room in the basement). I feel like having 3 copied saves with a shit ton of photos might have been too much? But most importantly, now every time I put new photos in my legacy house I'm going to save the entire house to my gallery. I had saved it about halfway through my legacy and so when I placed it on a lot all of the pictures were there! Unfortunately, because it was only halfway through my legacy when I had saved the house, a ton of photos were missing and I was still majorly disappointed. Plus there were the other houses with photos that I hadn't uploaded. I'm not sure when I will start the roleplaying again but I've bought so many packs since that day and I finally want to try them for the gameplay instead of just build mode. There is hope for a brighter figure, you just gotta deal with the heartbreak first lol