Thank you! I found out that it is using my screenshot folder because I did delete EA and Sims 4 Completely. I have two questions now.
1. How do I change it so that it pulls from the Mods folder? It does not allow me to edit in the sims settings
Okay so I see it is pulling from users\public\documents\electronic arts, how do I change it to pull from user\my name or will this not matter?
@madeintrinidad Wherever you see in game that the user folder is is where teh game will look for the Mods subfolder it's created. You can just go ahead and use that folder. Alternatively, here's a (complicated) way to tell the game to point from that folder to one of your choice: https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html The example is of using an external drive, but that's not the only location you can choose.
@madeintrinidad Sims 4 will always try to use the computer's Documents directory, as in, the folder Windows designates as the current user's Documents folder. If the game cannot access this location, it typically defaults to the Public folder or else throws an error. So the question is what is the current Documents directory, and do you want to change it?
To find the location of the directory, search in Windows for Command Prompt, open it, and enter this command, starting with reg query:
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal"
Please post the result here.
There's no need to wrestle with a symbolic link or to continue to use the Public folder if you'd prefer not to. Either one is of course a reasonable workaround, but the simplest approach is to designate the Documents folder as whatever you want it to be.
