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How to Back Up Saves in The Sims 4

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Published: Mar 14, 2023 01:48 pm

Backing up your save in Sims 4 can let you do many things. For one, it gives you peace of mind when it comes to any potential data collapse or errors. Also, backing up your Sims 4 save can let you transfer your game to a different platform, even to a PC so you can enjoy mods.

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How to Back Up Saves in The Sims 4 on PC and Mac

When it comes to PC and Mac, the procedure for backing up your Sims 4 save is basically the same. They both follow roughly the same path, which is Documens>Electronic Arts>The Sims 4>saves.

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Once you have found your exact save files in the saves folder, you can export your save and back it up by copying and pasting the files to another location. This can either be on a flash drive to be transferred to another platform or on a hard drive.

How to Back Up Saves in The Sims 4 on PlayStation

If you are a member of PS Plus, you get 100GB of cloud storage that automatically backs up saves, including your Sims 4 saves.

To manage your backed up saves, follow this path: Settings>Application Saved Data Management>Auto-Upload>Enabled Automatic Uploads>The Sims 4. With this done, your Sims 4 saves will automatically be backed up to the cloud which you can access later.

If you want to manually back up your Sims 4 saves on PlayStation, go to Settings>System>Back Up and Restore>Back Up PlayStation. By doing that, you can put your PlayStation data on an external hard drive.

How to Back Up Saves in The Sims 4 on Xbox

Like PlayStation, Xbox offers cloud storage for your saved data. However, you don’t need to pay to access it. Simply go into your Xbox settings and select which game you want to automatically back the saves on.

You can also navigate through the settings to select a manual export of saved data like on PlayStation. If you do this, you can take your Xbox Sims 4 saves and transfer them to a PC or other device.

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Noah Nelson
From his early days of blog-style music, movie, and game reviews to working as the Esports Writer at Coastline Community College, Noah Nelson now works fulltime as a Staff Writer for Attack of the Fanboy and PC Invasion. He has been helping gamers everywhere with Destiny 2 god rolls, Warzone 2 DMZ missions, and collectibles in any indie game for over a year and a half. His Bachelor's Degree in English Rhetoric and Composition with a minor in Journalism from CSULB has shaped him to be a strong writer and editor. His fondest gaming memory is playing Sly Cooper 2 after begging his mom (for hours) to play it before his birthday and he still cries myself to sleep remembering the time he accidentally saved over his 99% completion save file in Kingdom Hearts 2.