A good practice to get into is pausing the game before performing a hot sync! This way if something happens you can easily go back to that point. If you don’t pause the game and the saved game you want to go back was backed up 6 or more hours ago, you can lose some villagers. It is like you left the game on over night.

So get in a habit of pausing your game before you do a hotsync!

JMTCW

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