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Berg1020's avatar
3 years ago
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HELP I moved my Sims 4 Mods folder to my desktop and now everything is gone.

I moved my Sims 4 Mods folder to my desktop and now everything is gone. I have looked at past threads and tried to find my back ups but they are all empty. There is also nothing in my icloud either. Can anyone help me please? I have a final project due in three days and I have been working on it for over a month and now everything is gone. Thank you so much.

  • @Berg1020

    Yes, that is exactly what happens when you move any saves or mods out of the Sims 4 folder, the game doesn't load them. It is the most basic troubleshooting step when users have issues running the game. Put the Mods folder back in the Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder only if the Mods are all compatible with the current patch level of the game.

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @54322360983 

    Move your Sims 4 folder out onto your desktop, or rename it, and let the game generate a new one... You can find the folder in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. If your game then works ok the problem was in your user data... Now you have a nice, new, clean user data folder you can try adding your old data back into the game gradually, testing after each addition. For example, copy your saves from your old The Sims 4 folder into the new one. If your game once again doesn't perform properly then you know that there is a problem somewhere in your saves, one or more may be corrupted.

    That is quoted directly from step 1 in the link. Why do you have a new Sims 4 folder on the desktop? Maybe reading through several times will help.

  • 54322360983's avatar
    54322360983
    2 years ago

    i am referring to the one i moved previously to the desktop. I have moved all the files onto the “new clean” one but when i started up the game my mods still didn’t appear on the start up screen and didn’t work. 

  • K-SlashHer's avatar
    K-SlashHer
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I just had this same exact problem. Go to your File Explorer > Documents > The Sims 4 > Mods and that "Mods" folder should be empty if you moved them to your desktop. Move all of your Sims mods back into that "Mods" folder in Documents > The Sims 4. Hope this helps :)

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    3 months ago

    K-SlashHer​ 

    Your file path is wrong and there is no such thing as "File Explorer" on a Mac. The Mods folder should be in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4. If your Sims 4 folder is directly in Documents the game will not load user data from it and instead simply create a new Sims 4 folder in the Electronic Arts folder.