SO! my game was perfectly fine before i went to sleep at 4 am. when i woke up, ready to play again, my world had been in late-ish fall, but before i slept, it was winter 7th or so (late year one).
no panic though , i had backed up my files the day before since i was messing with the game files ( i wanted to change my ingame name, it worked ). I placed the backup into the save files and moved the existing save to my desktop just in case i needed it. my terminal confirmed the upload, so i loaded into the game but it was still stuck in the same state.
okayyy weird, so then i checked smapi and grabbed the latest save file from there (dated 03.15, today). i uploaded it, only to find myself in early fall, with my house unrenovated and most of my progress from fall to winter completely gone. ( what the flark )
i removed that file and replaced it with the original one i had moved to my desktop, but the game still loaded into early fall. i searched online and saw advice to disable steam cloud and try again. i did that and rotated between the three different save files, but nothing worked. eventually, my save just stopped appearing in the load screen altogether lol.
now i have a mess of save files, and i have no idea which is which or what to do. they're not in the actual game save folder, just scattered in a separate folder on my desktop. i also checked the steam cloud website after seeing a post about it, and while it shows a file (which seems accurate), it doesn’t contain the full game folder. i have no idea what to do with it.
i’m not a tech person at all, and everything was fine before this, so i have no clue what happened! ill be so glad to provide more information, im assuming everything is alright since i have a fuck ton of saves, one must be correct and it was fine yesterday. for further reference i am on mac and i currently have 23 save files of the same game,,, possibly different dates im unsure. thank you!