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sallomaa's avatar
3 years ago

Move sims 4 to a hard drive

Hello, I just moved my "electronic arts" folder to an external hard drive but when I open the sims 4 game all my savings were gone. so I put it again in his original placement and works again but how can I put it on a external hard drive with my savings so I can play where I left ?

Sorry for any English mistakes it isn’t my first language. Thank you

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  • @sallomaa  Sims 4 will always look for the user data, including saves, in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4.  If you move this folder somewhere else, for example to your external drive, the game will create a new folder in the same location.  The only way to move this folder is with a symbolic link.  Here's how:

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

    If the command to create the symlink doesn't work, please use the exact file path rather than %userprofile% as written in the guide.  You can see the exact file path by right-clicking on the Electronic Arts folder and selecting Properties > General, then looking for the Location.

    If you're not sure what you're looking at, please list this location and the location where you want your Sims 4 folder to be on the external.