[ARCHIVED] How to use Mods/CC on PC
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Hi! I was wondering if you had any information about running mods of an external hard drive? I have been trying to move them over for about a year and have done just about everything under the sun but the game just creates a new folder onto my laptops internal drive. I have tried creating junctions to and from each drive and that didnt work. The game itself is downloaded onto my external drive.
@PandaPopPlays The only way to make this work is to use a symbolic link, but you need to make sure the symlink itself is placed in the location where Sims 4 is creating the new user folder. For that, let the game create the new folder, right-click that folder, and select Properties > General. The Location is the file path you'll need to use in the command that creates the symlink.
Before creating the symlink itself, you'll need to remove that new Sims 4 folder. Windows won't be able to create a symlink in a location where another file or folder with the same name already exists.
If this doesn't help, please list that file path, and also list the full path to the location where you want your user folder to be on the external drive.
