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2f60a68cf13b2055
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1 year ago

Sims 4 via Origin was moved from PC to SSD, but swap to EA overwrote my file?

I took a break from the Sims for a few months and have tried looking up other similar topics to this but can't find an exact match (or maybe I'm just not understanding the lingo). When I ran Sims via...
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Bluebellflora
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1 year ago
@2f60a68cf13b2055

You've posted in the Mac forum, are you on a Mac or Windows machine?The game installation is set in Origin/EA App and is nothing to do with the Sims 4 user data folder which contains your saves, mods etc.

The symbolic link is used to create a shortcut to the Sims 4 user data folder stored in any location other than in the Documents > Electronic Arts folder which is the only place the game will look for it. This is nothing to do with Origin/EA App.

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