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fillykat's avatar
fillykat
5 years ago

Moving Mods from Drive C to D

I'm looking to move my Mods from the C drive to D, where I've got extra storage for all my games and such. Sims 4 is installed on D drive with no issue but I've been looking at ways to move the Documents over to D and keep getting mixed answers. I've seen mention of something called symlink that involves command prompt I guess, then another that has you go into properties and create some sort of shortcut that way.

When I did the second way, what came up on my D drive is this sort of shortcut at the very top:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/454633403065565184/694400212470333500/unknown.png?width=1100&height=619

I'm not certain if that means I can delete what I have in C:\Users\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods or not? It essentially copied over everything in my Documents to Drive D, which was the goal, but I'm uncertain if Sims 4 will know to go there to recognize it or not. Would really appreciate someone giving me a straight, clear answer on what exactly I'm supposed to do and when I can delete what Mod folder I have on C to save up space.

This is also on Windows 10.
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  • BobdorRaider1's avatar
    BobdorRaider1
    5 years ago
    You have to have adim control to move your documents folder to a different drive. Mine is set in the D drive. A shortcut is just a short cut, it does not contain the actual files.
    To do this, right click on your actual documents folder, then go to location, and change the location there. ex. mine is D :\Documents
    Or, you can just move your Sims 4 folder containing your mods to the D drive. you don't have to move your entire Documents folder, unless that is what you want to do.
  • RoyalGhostx's avatar
    RoyalGhostx
    5 years ago
    I have been wanting to do this for soo long as well. But can never find a good answer. The Sims 4 Mods folder takes up lots of space on the C drive and i have recently gotten a new HardDrive to have more space and haven't figured out how to move the location the sims 4 FOLDER to that drive so when i add CC etc it goes there instead the C drive where its installed and located. I have the sims 4 located installed on my D driver from Origin but not the actual Sims 4 Folder that has the mod folder etc.

    I hope this makes sense cause i don't understand why EA had the location of the game folder on the C driver as you shouldnt have any games installed there only have it for Windows updates etc.

    Anyways glad im not the only one who has been wanting to move the folder somewhere else.

    RoyalGhostx

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