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1 year ago

All expansion/game/stuff packs not running through SSD

So I've had two laptops, and on the first one (windows) I had the sims 4 base game downloaded on the laptop, and everything else on the SSD, but not the EA folder or game files or anything. Just the ...

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jpkarlsen

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1 year ago

@Geminicarol

The game has no idea that the packs are there. There is no need to delete everything just install to the same location.

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