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PHILLIPSL01's avatar
3 months ago
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Game Won't Launch After Moving to External Hard Drive

After reinstalling the game i realized certain mods and cc weren't in game.  The game was pulling from my old documents folder and not my external hard drive.  So i also rerouted the documents folde...
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    3 months ago

    @PHILLIPSL01  Please move Documents back to your internal drive, or one of them if you have multiple.  While it's fine to move Documents to a secondary internal drive, moving it to an external drive is problematic.  If the drive is ever disconnected, physically or in software, and Windows tries to access Documents, bad things will happen.  Instead, leave Documents on an internal drive and use a symbolic link to point to the Sims 4 folder, or the Electronic Arts folder, on your external.  Here's how:

    https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html

    For the issue itself, try renaming the Mods folder, which will prevent Sims 4 from reading it.  That's the fastest way to find out whether the problem is something in the Mods folder or is elsewhere.

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