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Seasoned Novice

5 years ago

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CC not showing in game?

Hello. Okay, so, I really need some help.

My game was not working correctly. I could start the game, click the menus, edit my sim, enter into live mode. HOWEVER, when I was in live mode, I could still click the menus, but I could not click on sims or any objects.

I first tried repairing my game, to no effect. I figured my mods were the cause of this. So I moved all my cc mods, into a non-sims 4 folder. I MOVED, NOT DELETED them. I opened my game only to find it was still not working correctly.

So, I instead figured it was one of my script mods. I redownloaded/updated all my script mods. Game was still not working. In order to firgure which script mod was causing the issue, I attempted to move them to a non sims 4 folder. However my laptop SOMEHOW instead deleted all the files inside of each and every one of my script mod folders. I was lucky enough that the folders themselves were not deleted. I then went through and reinstalled ALL my script mods. Every. Last. One. I made sure I had ALL of my script mods downloaded with every last piece of them. And yes, I reinstalled them into new folders, not their old ones. I made sure to delete the old ones first.

After finishing redownloading my script mods, I put ALL my cc back into the mods folder, I made sure absolutely none were deleted. Well, my game worked just fine now.

BUT, only a few of my cc would show up in game. I checked my mods folder, all the cc is there. It just won't show up in my game.

Does ANYONE, anyone whatsoever, have ANY solution to this?!

I really want to play my game again. But I can't for the life of me figure out why most of/almost all of my cc doesn't show up in game, but everything shows up in the mods folder. I tried moving my script mods into a non sims 4 folder again (Correctly this time lol, so I didn't lose any) but that didn't seem to fix the problem.

I just really want help fixing this. Please & Thank You.

puzzlezaddict
5 years ago
@LeafBlighter First, back up your Sims 4 user files: saves, cc and mods, anything you don't want to lose. Then disable (unlink) OneDrive entirely:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

Load Sims 4 and see whether it now reads the correct path. If it does, great, you can put whatever files you want to keep into the proper folder and go on from there. In the future, you can reenable OneDrive and stop it from syncing Documents; this usually doesn't change the path Sims 4 uses.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-which-onedrive-folders-to-sync-to-your-computer-98b8b011-8b94-419b-aa95-a14ff2415e85

If that doesn't help, please open a File Explorer window, right-click on Documents, select Properties, then Location, and let me know what path it shows. If it's pointing to OneDrive, you can change it to C:\Users\[your username]\Documents instead.

16 Replies

LeafBlighter
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
I haven't touched the Sims 4 in a while, I guess I sort of just gave up on it, until today. I updated the Sims 4, checked that all my mods were in my Sims 4 mod folder, only one sub folder deep, not outdated or anything, they have their meshes, everything seemed in order. I loaded up the Sims 4 and enabled mods, closed out of it, went back in, mods still weren't showing up. However, when I checked the path it was using it showed my onedrive path. It didn't show this before, but it does now. I don't know why, but that's just how it's working I guess. Maybe life just hates me. Anyhow, I looked through onedrive and sure enough the CC that isn't showing up in game is the CC I don't have linked/synced with Onedrive. I'm pretty sure I just need to change the path Sims 4 is using but I'm not quite sure how to. I pray that I just need to unsync my onedrive, if that doesn't work then I honestly might go mad.
Can someone please tell me how to get the Sims 4 to read the right path?
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@LeafBlighter First, back up your Sims 4 user files: saves, cc and mods, anything you don't want to lose. Then disable (unlink) OneDrive entirely:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

Load Sims 4 and see whether it now reads the correct path. If it does, great, you can put whatever files you want to keep into the proper folder and go on from there. In the future, you can reenable OneDrive and stop it from syncing Documents; this usually doesn't change the path Sims 4 uses.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/choose-which-onedrive-folders-to-sync-to-your-computer-98b8b011-8b94-419b-aa95-a14ff2415e85

If that doesn't help, please open a File Explorer window, right-click on Documents, select Properties, then Location, and let me know what path it shows. If it's pointing to OneDrive, you can change it to C:\Users\[your username]\Documents instead.
LeafBlighter
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
I haven't tried the first method, however I did try the second. This was the message it gave me:
LeafBlighter
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
Im trying to follow your first method, but it's like I can't back up my files because they just back up into one drive. Like, I can't get my files moved out of onedrive. I can't figure out whats my non onedrive folder and what is.
LeafBlighter
Seasoned Novice
5 years ago
Update: I FIGURED IT OUT. I finally found my regular computer files and am moving my documents file out of onedrive and onto my regular computer folder/file/whatever. In approximately 3 hours my entire documents folder should be back onto my regular desktop. Finally... I even pinned my normal computer files folder so that way when I do download new sims 4 cc I can make sure to put them into the correct folder.
Beejerama2004
3 years ago
@LeafBlighter I'm having a similar issue with my cc being in proper folders, the game asking me to accept them during load up, but when I'd go into build mode, I couldn't see any of them. Then, just to see if there weren't any bits of cc buried within categories, I checked the Custom Content box in the filter selection and there they were. I shouldn't have to do that, as they were visible from the get-go for months, but it's an immediate solution. I hope this helps?