No i didnt thanks for the help i did what you said and got my save back thanks! Didnt even loose much progress either.

   I went into my game just now and my sim valley 1 is missing. It shows a house with nothing it it and it wont let me click it. I went into saved games and took out the sim valley1 file hoping the backup would bring it back but that didnt work. How can i get that saved game back. Im running on windows xp. I have no hacks in the game at this time. im patched up and had no problems until this morning . Oh yeah yesterday i did compress DCCache, Dccbackup and the monkey files. But i dont see how that would of bornked my saved game neoborhood.

   Hi my game is starting to lag and i have went through my monkey program folders and removed things that show up as high in numbers on the compressor after i compressed them . I have also compressed the Dccbackup folder and searching on this site i found out that that was a useless endeaver. But what i want to know would it help to compress the DCCache folder. What got me was my game was fine on aug3 when i put some stuff in it. It didnt lag or anything then when i put stuff in it on the sixth it started to lag on me. I have things in my game that look huge like stuff that reads on the compressor as 900 to above and thier not hair or meshes. Im not sure if that is a high number or not but it seems alot higher then other things i have in game. I use the monkey package installer at mod the sims and the launcher for things the monkey cant do. So im trying to do anything i can to get the lag out of my game. Since all i have in it is clothes and patterns mostly and only one hair so far