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ee7154b6c3e70698
Rising Novice
20 days ago

Is this coming from Sims4?

I recently purchased a new laptop and one of the first things I did was setup my Steam games, including Sims4. At some point shortly after that I got a notification from MS OneDrive about deleting hundreds of jpg files. Up until this point I have not deleted anything but the # of files continues to grow with each new notification and the last notification showed 1172 files to be deleted. I've not played any other games on this new laptop so far besides Sims4. I never had this occur on my other laptop but can't attribute it to any other programs. An example of one of the files, in case it helps, is 3c2a8647-00000002-0001d72a.jpg That means nothing to me in terms of identifying what the file is related too.

Has anyone else experienced this with Sims4 and, if so, did you delete the files?

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  • ee7154b6c3e70698​  Those files probably are from Sims 4, and they're probably completely useless all the time and can be deleted without consequences.  The game creates a lot of temp files that it deletes on its own, but the files are stored in Documents while they exist.  So as you're playing, OneDrive has the chance to sync these files.

    Files you wouldn't want to delete are saves (start with Slot_), Tray files, and possibly mods and custom content.

    One workaround here is to pause OneDrive syncing as you're playing.  You could resume afterwards and let it sync anything the game doesn't delete but keep it away from the temp files.

    If you want to change your OneDrive configuration in some way, please see the first post of this thread:

    [CURRENT ISSUE] Sims 4 saves/user content disappearing (PC) | EA Forums - 11838402

  • Carizzard's avatar
    Carizzard
    Seasoned Newcomer
    19 days ago

    I have been having the same thing happening for about a week now. IDK why it started showing up all of a sudden? My computer is newish (couple months old), but I've been playing The Sims 4 since day one of having it. And these notifications keep popping up and never had this happen before on other computers

  • ee7154b6c3e70698's avatar
    ee7154b6c3e70698
    Rising Novice
    19 days ago

    Thanks for the reply. One thing I didn't think to try before making my OP was to run a search for one of the files. I did that for both the laptop as well as my OneDrive and found nothing was found.

  • ee7154b6c3e70698​  As I said, the files are temp files that the game creates when you have a save loaded and then deletes when you quit.  OneDrive may delete them accordingly even if you choose to keep them because it's simply trying to mirror what's on your computer.

    Carizzard​  You might only see the message now because OneDrive is full enough to need to delete some data.  You can check your free and total cloud storage by right-clicking the cloud icon in the lower-right corner of the screen and selecting Settings > Account.

  • ee7154b6c3e70698's avatar
    ee7154b6c3e70698
    Rising Novice
    9 days ago

    I ultimately deleted the files and have not noticed any issues since then.

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