Transferring Saves to a New PC

Is there any way to get the hard drive out?

@AriaMad2 There may be, but I am not tech-savvy and cannot afford to pay someone else to do it. I may have a friend who could help, but I'm not sure what I would need to do afterward.

"whimreaper;c-17075395" wrote:
@AriaMad2 There may be, but I am not tech-savvy and cannot afford to pay someone else to do it. I may have a friend who could help, but I'm not sure what I would need to do afterward.

Have you launched the game on your new computer yet?

Not yet. I will have to wait for it to come in, but I was just wondering what to expect/what I could do in the meantime to minimize the damage. Sorry if there's nothing to be done until it comes in (at which point I will obviously do my best to revive my saves).

"whimreaper;c-17075401" wrote:
Not yet. I will have to wait for it to come in, but I was just wondering what to expect/what I could do in the meantime to minimize the damage. Sorry if there's nothing to be done until it comes in (at which point I will obviously do my best to revive my saves).

Not to worry, my best guess here would be to do the following:
1. Get someone (maybe a friend as you suggested) to see if they can get your Sims 4 folder off the old hard drive and transfer it to a USB.
2. When your new computer comes in, install The Sims 4 and launch it as normal. There will be nothing there, but this will create a folder to transfer your files into.
3. Import your saves into the generated save folder, and add tray contents to the generated tray folder.
4. Launch The Sims 4 again. This time, your stuff will be there.

@AriaMad2 Thank you so much! That helps a ton. I'll definitely see about extracting the hard drive this week. Have a great day! :)

"whimreaper;c-17075410" wrote:
@AriaMad2 Thank you so much! That helps a ton. I'll definitely see about extracting the hard drive this week. Have a great day! :)

Thanks, you too! ?

I just did something similar. I had several older Tray files on my desktop. Not wishing to lose my builds, I decided to refresh my game folder. First, I pulled it to my desktop to have that tray, and my current saves as well. Then, after the new folder regenerated, I opened up new games wherein I downloaded my lots from the most current Tray I'd placed into the new game folder. I got all the saves I wanted. Once that tray had been secured, I replaced it with the next one and continued with new saves until I had that tray secured. The entire plan was to be able to place all of the saves I wished to keep in a single tray, allowing me to clean-up my desktop. Once you have your saves in place, you should be able to upload your builds to the gallery, (My Library) and from there you can download them again placing them where you wish them to be.

If you wish to have a nice 'tidy' Tray again, place a brand new, empty Tray folder into your game and download from your gallery. The long and the short of it is, you should be fine.

You only need saves and tray folder and place it on a new Sims 4 folder in your hdd after the game generates it for you

If you have Windows 10, you can copy them to OneDrive. I did that when I got my new computer a little over a year ago, and I didn't lose anything important. Now, I keep a current backup there and on my desktop, just in case something goes wrong.