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puzzlezaddict
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6 years ago

Re: Re: Origin keeps installing game to C drive and not D drive :(

@jlstrotman  Games generally have two sets of files: the program files, which are the core game files and which you can choose to install wherever you want; and the user data files, which contain information about your saved progress, settings, created content, etc.  The user data files are typically stored in a subfolder0 within Documents, for example the Sims 4 data is in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4.  The game will always look for the data here, and if you cut and paste the folder elsewhere, a new one will spawn in its place.

So please check what's in the folder on your C drive.  If in fact Origin is installing program files on C, that should be fixable.  If you're looking at the files in Documents, that's a different issue.  Let me know if you'd like them to be saved elsewhere.  And it would also help to know which game you're playing.

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  • jlstrotman's avatar
    jlstrotman
    6 years ago

    The files are being saved to the Documents/Electronic Arts folder. A new one generates each time I start the game (after being deleted). I have my saved games backed up on a removable hard drive while trying to fix this issue. I am trying to move this Doc folder since it’s filling up my C drive while my D drive is almost completely empty. 

    I’m playing Sims 3 on Windows 10. 

    Thank you!!

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    puzzlezaddict
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    6 years ago

    @jlstrotman  I've split your posts into their own thread, since the other thread was a bit old and might get closed.

    The easiest way to move your Sims 4 user data folder to D is to redirect Documents in its entirety to that drive.  This is fairly simple and is supported by Windows.

    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-move-default-user-folders-new-drive-windows-10

    (You don't need to move any other folders unless you want to.)  If you would prefer that Documents stay on C but the Sims 4 folder be on D, there's a way to do that too, but it's more complicated.  These instructions are written with an external drive in mind, but they work equally well with an internal one:

    https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html

  • jlstrotman's avatar
    jlstrotman
    6 years ago

    Ok this did not work the way I expected. I thought it would reset the default of saving to C drive "Documents" to now save to the D Drive.

    What it actually did was just duplicate the folder and continue to save in both locations. 

    The game still saved to the C drive every time, but also copied those same files to the D drive. If I delete the C Drive files, thinking they are a duplicate and I can use the D drive files, nope, the D Drive files are gone too. All the homepath command did was create an exact working copy of the C Drive folder.

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    puzzlezaddict
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    6 years ago

    @jlstrotman  The files you're seeing on C aren't actually on C.  You're clicking through the symbolic link and landing in D, to where you redirected your Sims 4 folder.  That's why deleting them in one place removes them from the other: there's only one set of files, which you can access two ways.  If you're not sure about this, right-click on the Sims 4 alias on your C drive and select Properties.  You'll see the file size is tiny compared to the full folder on D.

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