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NatashaM46
9 years ago

Moving Sims 4 Electronic Arts folder to a different place?

Recently, I bought a Seagate 1TB external hard drive to clear up space on my Mac. I've reformatted the hard drive, made the game library location the new hard drive, un-installed the Sims 4 off my co...
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fons_garmo
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9 years ago

Hi @NatashaM46,

Dragging and dropping The Sims 4 folder into the new drive will not work. The Sims 4 is designed to have it's folder located on the Documents folder. If you want to move The Sims 4 folder, you'll have to move the whole User folder to the new drive.

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aobadsul
4 years ago

But moving the User's folder to another location messes up my Windows install and now I'm forced to reinstall windows all over again. Moving the User folder will break some things and programs aren't going to work properly. 

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