Save health

Save Health is where SimSweep looks at your actual save files rather than just your mod library. Corruption checks, household breakdowns, growth timelines, backups, and a full map of which CC each save depends on. Most of the good stuff here is a Decrypt feature, and this page says so clearly where it applies.

Getting started#

Save Health lives in Diagnostics. To get the most out of it, make sure Include save files in scan is turned on in Settings before you run a scan. Without save scanning, most of this section won't have data to work with.

If SimSweep didn't find your saves automatically, use Find My Saves to point it at the right folder.

Selecting a save#

The Your Saves list shows all discovered save files. From here you can:

• Analyze All to run analysis across every save at once
• Refresh to re-check the list if you've added or removed saves recently

Select any save to work with it individually.

Tabs#

Each save has three tabs: Analysis, Compare, and Backups.

Analysis (Decrypt)#

The Analysis tab is where most of the useful information lives. It requires Decrypt.

Actions available here:

• Create Backup to snapshot the save before making changes
• Check Corruption to look for signs the save file is damaged
• Export to save a copy somewhere else

The Analysis tab also surfaces Decrypt-only panels:

• Optimization Guide with suggestions for keeping the save running smoothly
• Save Insights with a summary of what SimSweep found
• Households listing the households in the save
• Growth History showing how the save has changed over time

Compare (Decrypt)#

Compare Two Saves lets you pick a Baseline and a Compare Against save to diff them. Useful for spotting what changed between an older backup and your current file.

Backups#

The Backups tab shows two sections:

• Game Auto-Backups are the copies the Sims 4 creates automatically
• Your Backups are the ones created through SimSweep

Backup operations depend on write access to the save folder and available disk space. If a backup fails, that's the first thing to check.

Save dependencies#

Save Dependencies is a separate view in the Tools section. It only appears when save scanning was included in the active scan.

It lists every save that has CC packages associated with it, and for each save shows:

• How many CC packages it references
• Total size of those packages
• Whether any are Build/Buy (BB)
• Whether any have conflicts
• Whether any have broken CC

This is the most direct way to see the relationship between your mod library and your actual saves. If a specific save is having problems, checking its dependency list tells you which packages it actually uses.

How save scanning works#

SimSweep builds instance ID patterns from CAS, Object, Tuning, and Preset IDs in your library and scans .householdbinary, .trayitem, and .save files for matches. CAS CC has to appear in a save to count as Used. Tray items alone don't qualify. Presets are tracked separately because save files don't retain preset IDs directly.

Note: Used and unused CC results across the whole app are more accurate when save scanning is enabled. If the Used & unused numbers look off, that's the first setting to check.

Next up#

If Save Dependencies shows conflicts or broken CC tied to a save, My CC is where you can dig into those specific files.