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tenbandz
6 years ago

Moving Game and Mods to a New Drive

Hi! I'm having a lot of trouble with my TS4 game, I think I might've broken something... To free up space, I moved my Sims 4 game onto my D drive. I tried moving my Mods folder and saves onto the D ...
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kreatora
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6 years ago

@tenbandz

The game has two folders. One folder with installation files was created in Program Files when you downloaded the game. It doesn't matter which drive it uses.
The second game folder the game creates when you first time turning on the game. This folder by default is placed on C drive in Documents. There is your current game - mods folder, saves folder, library - Tray folder and so on.
If you will move this folder to another drive the game simply will create and use the next folder on C drive in Documents.
So you have to move the whole Documents folder to another drive. How to do it depends on the system you are using.
Here is the formula for Win 10
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74952-move-location-documents-folder-windows-10-a.html

I don't work for EA

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    tenbandz
    6 years ago

    Thank you so much for responding!!!

    When I first moved all the files over to the D drive I used this method of moving the entire documents folder and linking it to the D drive. My CC and saves loaded into the game, everything worked perfectly. When I tried to download NEW CC and mods, it wasn't loading into the game. So I tried to move the Documents folder back to the C drive, and then move it AGAIN to the D drive, but it didn't work and now everything is messed up. It'll say "Unrecognized video capture" or something like that.

    I did a little trial and error and would move a folder at a time from the EA/The Sims 4 folders to the D drive to see if I could fix it.

    It was weird because when I had the folder named "Mods" it loaded my saves but no CC or mods, but the only things in that folder are Mods and CC... Idk I'm pretty sure I messed everything up badly...(UPDATE: I don't have the Mods folder on the D drive anymore but my saves are there... i'm so confused sorry!!!!)

    I made sure I have TS4 game installed on the D drive. The picture is everything I have in my documents folder on the C drive. (Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/what you see in the picture). My documents folder's current location is "C:\Users\mayas(my name)\Documents"

    The second photo is everything on my D drive. Inside the Origin Games folder is TS4 game with a bunch of other folder in there...

    Hopefully this gives you a better understanding of my issue!

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