@pwalshwaring I've merged your post with the master thread for this issue. Please see the first post on page one, particularly the first section ("Restoring missing saves"). If that doesn't work, try the suggestions in "My saves still aren't appearing in-game." The info applies to custom content and other user files as well.
The point here is that once you've moved the files to the folder Sims 4 is reading and everything is named properly, your content should show up again.
@puzzlezaddict Hi thank you for linking me to this thread, it has helped me to understand more of what is going on.
If I go into the Sims 4, the test save I made yesterday is still there, and the file path says that it is in onedrive, which I think means that the game is reading the onedrive folder, as the one I am using. I think that all of my old stuff is on my pc, so how do I make the game use that folder, instead of the one on onedrive. I'm pretty sure that I deleted onedrive off of my computer, as there isnt an option for it in my file explorer anymore, and the only way to access it is to go to onedrive.com and log in.
How do I stop the game from using that onedrive folder, and instead using the one on my PC?
Thanks so much for your help.
@pwalshwaring First, let's make sure that the location of Documents is in fact no longer in OneDrive. Run a Windows search for Command Prompt, launch it, and copy and paste this command into the window:
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal"
Please post the results.
@o0gabo0ga2 I've merged your post with the master thread for disappearing saves. Please see the first post on page one, particularly the "Recover missing saves" section and the "My saves aren't in OneDrive" section if necessary.
Hi, I've taken a screen snip of the dialogue box.
Also I was going off of the thread you linked me to, and copied the Sims 4 folder that is on my pc and pasted it to downloads, cause you said it wouldnt sync there.
@pwalshwaring Somehow you put your Documents folder inside OneDrive > Desktop, which was not the idea at all. I was saying that you could place a backup of the Sims 4 folder that contains your saves inside Downloads so it would be protected from deletion when you uninstalled the game.
At any rate, please follow this guide to changing the location of Documents, specifically part one:
If that doesn't help, use this guide to force the change:
In either case, the file path you want for Documents is this:
C:\Users\pheeb\Documents
with nothing else in it at all.
