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SpookeyKitty_4
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10 days ago

Moving Files to Another Drive

Hello, 

I have been trying play my Sims 4 game for quite some time and I've had a lot of difficulty trying to figure out what I can do to fix it. I run my game through Steam and then I have custom content that I run through Curse forge then through the EA app and so on, and everything was working fine with my computer until I had gotten a larger hard drive, and it seems I'm having a hard time moving everything over to that new drive. I had originally somehow made it so my files were downloading into my OneDrive but with your forums help I was able to default my Personal registry to my main drive again but It's running out of room again, I need help to properly move things over can anyone help me? 

crashing
custom content (cc)
ea app
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    4 days ago

    J3l3na_Morgs  No, you need to install the entire game in one location.  I'm not sure why you'd want to split the base game and your packs though.  There's no benefit to having some of this data on a faster drive and the rest on a slower one.

  • J3l3na_Morgs's avatar
    J3l3na_Morgs
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    6 days ago

    I wanted to know if it is possible to move all my game packs to an external hard drive while leaving my sims 4 install on my C drive

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    9 days ago

    SpookeyKitty_4  Do you want to install Sims 4 on the other drive, or move your user data, or both?  The game itself can be installed without your doing anything special—simply uninstall it through the EA App and reinstall in the new location of your choice.

    If you want your saves, mods and cc, and other user data on the secondary drive, you'll need to create a symbolic link to tell the game where to look.  Here's how:

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

    If you're going to do both, it would be best to create folders on the secondary drive, one for each type of data.  So you might install the game to D:\Games and move the user folder to D:\Sims Data, or really whatever you want as long as they're not in the same location.

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