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beemeat
2 years ago
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Cannot launch Sims4, System cannot find file specified

Last night I was playing sims, just as normal and today when I went to launch the game, I was met with "Error, The system cannot find the file specified". A few days ago, I installed a few mods but t...
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nerdychic99
2 years ago

Hi! I figured out what worked for me. Avast has a program called Quarantine where it isolates "potentially harmful" files. I found some of my s4 files under Quarantine. I selected them and restored them and my game booted like normal

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Xylia_2018
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2 years ago
@nerdychic99 wrote:

Hi! I figured out what worked for me. Avast has a program called Quarantine where it isolates "potentially harmful" files. I found some of my s4 files under Quarantine. I selected them and restored them and my game booted like normal

This seemed to work for me.

Avast quarantined the files, then let me make and exception. However it still held the files hostage until I went and restored them. 

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