Thanks for the help! That's all it took. It would still be nice to be able to tell the Sims 4 to save my savegames to a custom location though. I'm trying to keep all my game related content on a separate SSD from the Windows Default documents location. If you happen to know if there's a way to do that then please let me know.
@MeanXeno You can create a symbolic link:
If you get an error when running the second command, use the full file path rather than %UserProfile% as written. For example, you'd probably be writing one of these:
C:\Users\your username\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
C:\Users\your username\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
You can right-click any file or folder and select Properties > General to find the full file path.
@Hannagrynt I've merged your post with the master thread for this issue. Please see the first post on page one.
My game ran fine last week. Everything is saved to path C:\Users\Public\Documents\Electronic Arts and has been since first install. Now the game is reading at C:\Users\rblbe\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
I do not have OneDrive enabled. I keep turning it off and telling it not to sync.
Any idea how or why it moved? How do I make it go back? Do I just need to copy everything over to the new path? Can I just delete the onedrive path and hope the game finds the old path?
@Cyanide68 If you unlink your Microsoft account, OneDrive won't be able to sign itself in. Right-click the OneDrive icon in the lower-right corner of your screen and select Settings > Account, then click Unlink this PC.
To move the location of the Documents directory, please use this guide:
Choose the default location, i.e. %USERPROFILE%\Documents , for the Personal value (the location of Documents). Even OneDrive can't stop you from changing the registry value like this.
