@MarMarDinah15 Your Sims 4 user files may well have gone into the folder for the game's program files, and I would sort that out before doing anything else. At the very least, grab the saves and Tray folders so you've preserved your saves and saved households and builds.
You can create the symbolic link before or after you've moved the game's program files, or without moving them to the external at all. But one critical detail is that you need to have the program files and the user files in separate folders. You can't just dump everything into D:\The Sims 4 and hope it works. Create another folder on your external, call it whatever you want, and direct the game to look for the user folder there, for example D:\Game Data\The Sims 4.
I’m just wondering if you know how to fix my issue, my sims game works perfectly fine, no issues there, however when trying to add my cc I’m struggling as it doesn’t appear in game, I’m also using the EA app since origin doesn’t work on my device anymore, I also have an external hard drive ; I have no idea how to get my cc in game, since when I try to add it to the mods folder nothing happens / it doesn’t appear in my game
@katie51609 Sims 4 will still read and write to the user folder in Documents > Electronic Arts regardless of where you've installed the game. If you're already looking there, please make sure the file path to your Mods folder exactly matches the file path you see in-game:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/
If you do want to move the user folder to your external drive, you'll need to create a symbolic link to tell the game where to look:
I appreciate the help however i think due to my type of laptop maybe the https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html
didn't work, again I could be doing something wrong but i tried following it step by step, whenever i tried to make an empty text file ( MKLINK /J “%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” “D:\The Sims 4” ) it would say 'A file name can't contain any of the following characters' . Again, thank you for the help you have given but my brain is malfunctioning lol
@katie51609 Why are you trying to change the name of the text file? The name doesn't matter; the point of opening the text file is so you can modify the command for your purposes, and check your work, before inputting it into Command Prompt.
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