Looking for advice, assistance, or kindness that can be provided. Long story short, my graphics chip failed, the company is having us remove it and send it back. In the event that doesn't happen, we will have to send the tower and I won't get my hard drive back.
I have 2 neighborhoods I want to save and export, with their universities and extended universes intact if possible: Belladonna Cove and Riverblossom Hills. I was getting ready to start a new round in another but am glad it hadn't happened yet.
At current, my computer will run for about 10 minutes from boot up to auto-shutdown due to the overheating, with all the extra precautions I can take, short of taking it outside in below freezing conditions with snow which I'm sure I could eek out another 15 minutes that way and I am tempted. More practical is if I don't use any graphics (read: text only without fancy loading screens), I may get a few extra minutes but if it takes a fraction of movement, that clock ticks down faster.
So I turn to you, what is the easiest, fastest, and safest way for me to do this?
Do I transfer via memory stick or am I safe to place it in google docs until I can move it to another PC?
Can I zip the individual neighborhoods or do I need to try to run SimsPE or some equivalent?
This is my post nightmare medical comfort game and I am really upset at the prospect of losing the stories and drama that played out. I have invested way more hours into this than to any other game in the time since.
Thank you for any help or advice.