I do normally use the "save only" feature rather than "save to hood", but since I was only minutes from leaving the house, I thought I could make a quick phone call. It wasn't a huge redesign but I'd had to play around to get rid of a sort-of-bug connected to where I could place the camera man camera. I perhaps made a mistake in not saving when I normally would have done but it would have been a difference of about 2-3 minutes play time so I thought "finish off, then save when you have to leave anyway". I normally save at 6:00 - 7:00 am so I can guarantee no vistors and that all of the sims will be up but still on the lot.

It was just irritating that something as simple as trying to phone a sim to form a friendship before saving caused me to lose everything.

I posted about this in another forum and someone recommended that I repost my problem here, in this thread.

I'm having problems with the sims' thumbnails altering all the time. After my initial irritation I got used to it and put up with it, even quite liked it but I've noticed that my sims' phone books now take an age to load. A similar effect happens when I try to look through their relationships panel. I assume this is because the game is having to load the latest portraits for everyone that sim knows?

I know others have bought this up already, but the reason I'm mentioning it again is because I've just lost two sim days worth of play at a house because the game crashed when loading up a sim's 7 page phone book. That wouldn't be a problem but I'd redesigned the house, landscaped it and made a whole load of new friends. I was planning to leave the house and save the very next morning as I needed to move their son back in with them.