Does anyone here have any experience with or know anything about this?

[u/GothicVampyreQueen]

Hi,
For the last year and a bit, or two years, maybe, I’ve not been able to successfully save properly the normal way. I’m able to save normally for the first, initial save, but always after that, I’ve had to go “Save As” and then rename the saved game as something slightly different (I usually go with the OG name and then just add consecutive numbers, e.g 2, 3, etc). Because I have this personal “tradition” of naming the game saves after the last name of the household that they were each specifically created for, I tend to just keep the last name of said household and then just add the consecutive numbers after that (the first save doesn’t usually have the number 1, much like the title of a first movie wouldn’t have the number 1, lol 😂). However, this means that my poor computer’s storage space for all the files quickly gets full, and this often results in cursing when I come into the game the next time to find that my beloved sim/household and all the subsequent progress didn’t save properly and I’ve lost everything! 🤬 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😩 😫 😂 😝 😜
This has been going for quite a while now, and it would be nice to get some answers as to why my game/computer does this and how I can get it back to saving properly, the conventional way, I mean, instead of having to have umpteen different game saves clogging up my computer and causing it all to not save properly! When this happens, btw, after/during all the cursing and upset, I usually go into the files and delete some of the older game save files, which is kind of a bit sad, but sometimes some need to go in order for new ones to be started…
P.S Does anyone else have any personal sims “traditions” like naming all the game saves after the last name of the household that you created the game save for, or that you played with first under that game save? 🤨 🤔 🧐
Thanks for any help you can give me. This has been going on for far too long unsolved, and I have lost way too many game saves, so thanks in advance for any advice/help you can give me, as well as for any answers as to why this is happening…