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aquamarine_blues
Seasoned Novice
5 days ago
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Game Not Opening - Symbolic Link

I've had my Sims 4 user folder located on a secondary drive (internal). It's been working fine up until the past few days. The EA app has been giving me connection errors and now the error says it's ...
crashing
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    5 days ago

    aquamarine_blues​  If you rename the Sims 4 folder on your secondary drive, does the game work?  The reason I ask is if you delete the symlink and do nothing else, the game isn't reading any of your data.  So the problem could be your data instead of the symlink.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 days ago

aquamarine_blues​  If you rename the Sims 4 folder on your secondary drive, does the game work?  The reason I ask is if you delete the symlink and do nothing else, the game isn't reading any of your data.  So the problem could be your data instead of the symlink.

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aquamarine_blues
Seasoned Novice
5 days ago

After testing without the link the problem does seem to be my User Folder's data. I'm not sure what could be causing this error though.

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