@Brigittecamacho Your saves are stored locally on your computer, specifically in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves. You can just copy the contents of this folder from one computer to another; it works whether you're using macOS or Windows, and even works between them.
All of the content you create or download is stored in this folder. Aside from your saves, saved households and builds are in the Tray folder, mods and custom content are in the Mods folder, screenshots in the Screenshots folder, etc. There isn't much else that matters in that folder, so you could just copy the contents of saves and Tray and pick up where you left off.
By the way, now is a good time to make a backup of your saves folder, in case you ever need it. You can store it on an external hard drive or USB stick, or upload it to cloud storage.
and the documents and all that is it found in the settings of the computer or is it fond in origin? I'm not really sure how it all works if you can tell me the steps I would greatly appreciate it please and thank you.
@Brigittecamacho These are files and folders, not settings, and they're on your computer, not in Origin. What method do you want to use to transfer the files? You can use an external hard drive or USB stick, iCloud storage (if your old computer supports it), or a third-party filehosting site. Take your pick, and I'll explain what to do.
can you explain the hard drive and the third-party filehosting site? Please and thank you!! sorry for taking forever to answer hopefully you see this soon 🙂
@Brigittecamacho Copying files to and from an external storage device (hard drives, USB sticks, etc.) is very intuitive and straightforward on any system. Here's a good article about doing so on a Mac:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl027f1d66/mac
A third-party filehosting site is just a website that allows you to create an account and upload files. (Examples are Google Drive and Dropbox.) Most sites offer some storage for free, and more storage for a monthly fee, but you would probably not use anywhere near the limit for a free account. The advantage of this is that you wouldn't need an external storage device; you could upload and download files from different locations without worrying about buying something or carrying it around.
To upload to a filehosting site, first zip up the files you want to upload. To do this, right-click (or hold down the control key and click) on the folder and Compress. You'll get a .zip file, which you can then upload, often just by dragging and dropping the file into a window on the filehosting site. To download the content on the new computer, sign into the site, find your uploaded files, and click the Download button. The file will land in Downloads. Then double-click on the .zip file, and it will extract into a folder again. You can put the folder or its contents wherever they need to go on your new computer.
