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7 years ago

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Duplicate folder

I made a duplicate of my EA folder before the island living update to be safe in case any thing happened. Now having to folders of the sims 4 is taking up too much storage on my computer. How do I know which folder to delete?

mac

Bluebellflora
7 years ago
@rj215a

Don't merge them. Copy the one you don't want to an external drive or online storage, just in case you need to access it later, then delete it from your Mac.

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Bluebellflora
Hero+
7 years ago
@rj215a

Where is the duplicate folder? The game will be loading the one in Documents > Electronic Arts
rj215a
7 years ago
@Bluebellflora They are both in documents. One is called "The Sims 4" and the other is "Electronic Arts". The folder "The Sims 4" has more recent items in it.
rj215a
7 years ago
@Bluebellflora Also there is the folder "The SIms 4" within the EA folder, which I'm guessing was my original copy of the game. This folder has the older items in it
Bluebellflora
Hero+
7 years ago
@rj215a

The game will be loading the Sims 4 folder within the Electronic Arts folder. You can easily check by loading up your game then quitting, then opening the Sims 4 folder and looking at the Date Modified date and time, it should be when you loaded the game.
rj215a
7 years ago
Should I merge both folders together or just delete the older one?
Bluebellflora
Hero+
7 years ago
@rj215a

Don't merge them. Copy the one you don't want to an external drive or online storage, just in case you need to access it later, then delete it from your Mac.