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4 years ago

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How to move sims 4+packs+mods/cc from C drive to D drive?

Hi there,

I would like to ask if someone knows how to move your sims 4 game and packs with your mods and saves, from one drive to another and have it all still work after moving it all?

I am trying to move it to save space on my operating drive.

I hope someone has an answer to this

puzzlezaddict
4 years ago
@xNicklasx For the game's program files, open your Origin game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, select Move Game, and choose your preferred destination. It's best to create a folder on the secondary drive first if you haven't already, for example directing the data to D:\Games rather than just D.

For your user data, including saves and mods, everything is stored in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 regardless of where the game itself is installed. Your two options here are to redirect all of Documents to the other drive, which is fine for a secondary internal drive but should not be done if the drive is external; or to use a symbolic link, which is fine for internal or external drives. Respective guides:

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74952-move-location-documents-folder-windows-10-a.html

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

Either way, make a backup copy of the Sims 4 user folder before proceeding, just in case.

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MayushkaOwO
Seasoned Newcomer
8 months ago
Hello, i know it has been a while since this thread was active, but I hope to have some luck. I did all the stuff to link the folder and it did but the folder still takes up space on C instead (not instead, both folders have the same size) of the D as it should. My C drive has about 200MB of space (very terrible since the system is also there) and even with the linking etc. The mods folder (the only one that has anything since I deleted everything a while back because of the space) still appears in C whenever I even just as much as link it and start the game.
Am I doing something wrong? The link went through and the folder shows the little shortcut icon but is still about 9GB. My computer is also in czech language so I will translate anything that happens.
This is basically the folder which should be linked but takes so much space.

I used the command just like this: MKLINK /J “%UserProfile%\Dokumenty\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” "D:\The Sims 4\The Sims 4" and it said "connection made..." I also used it with "Documents" instead of "Dokumenty" so that should not be a problem.
If you (or anybody) have some idea why this may be happening, i would be very happy for any answer. Thank you very much in advance.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
8 months ago
MayushkaOwO The "folder" in your screenshot isn't a folder at all, it's a symbolic link, like you wanted to create. It's actually very small; the size you're seeing comes from the data on D. If you're not convinced, try trashing only the symbolic link and see how much space you recover. You can create it again easily enough—your command worked fine the first time.

If you're not seeing any space freed up on C, restart your computer and look again.
hh3rz6k200jg
Seasoned Newcomer
8 months ago
puzzlezaddict where do you open your origin game library?
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
8 months ago
hh3rz6k200jg Sorry for the late reply. Origin is gone now, so that part of the advice from a couple years ago no longer applies. And the EA App doesn't have a Move Game feature like Origin did. So you'd need to uninstall Sims 4 and reinstall it where you'd like it to be.

If you still need help, please describe the problem you're currently facing.
MayushkaOwO
Seasoned Newcomer
8 months ago
Thank you very much. My computer had some other issues so it looked like it doesn't work but it is all good now. Your responses helped me very much so thank you for that. I would be so lost without your help here.