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halicee
3 years ago
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Moving Electronic Arts Folder

Hi, I have recently downloaded Sims 4 onto my laptop, it's windows, and I am signed into both my school account and my personal account on one drive. Steam, EA and the internet shortcut to Sims 4 are...
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puzzlezaddict
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3 years ago

@halicee  What is the default location of the Documents directory in this Windows account?  To find out, open a File Explorer window, right-click the Documents icon (the special one with its own icon, under Quick Access), select Properties, and click the Location tab.  If you don't see the Location tab, please let me know; you can still see the location under General, but a missing Location tab would complicate changing it, if that's what's necessary.

Please list this location, and also list the full file path to the Sims 4 user folder as you see from inside the game:

https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/

If you're not comfortable including your username, you can write [username] instead, but please let me know if the usernames don't match (for example, you could write [user 1] and [user 2] in the respective file paths), and leave the rest of the file paths intact.

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halicee
3 years ago

Sorry i just re read the message I think this is the other link you were talking about? C:\Users\[user 1]\OneDrive [user 2]\Documents

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    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @halicee  This is the info I was looking for.  Please try changing the default location of Documents to this:

    C:\Users\[user 1]\Documents

    Here's how you can do that:

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-documents-folder-in-windows-11.8708/

    Let me know if you run into any trouble with the process; you can make sure it worked by checking the location under Properties as you did before.

    Sims 4 should place the user folder in the new location once you've changed it, but if not, you may need to uninstall and reinstall the game.

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      halicee
      3 years ago

      Thank you so much this worked perfectly and is now downloading the electronic arts folder in the correct place

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