Moving Sims 4 From C Drive to D Drive
I'm currently trying to move my Sims 4 data over to the D drive. The game is already installed onto the D drive, but the save, cache, tray, and mod files are all still saved into the C drive for what...
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@Missmagoo2 Do you have a Sims 4 folder on D in the same location you're trying to use? That's the normal cause of this error: the sytem doesn't allow two files or folders with the same name to be in the same location. If you can't delete that folder, for example if it's the folder that contains the Sims 4 installed files, just choose a different location, for example within a different folder.
In case you're not aware though, you can't just move the user data folder—the game won't read it and will create a new one instead. You'll either need to move the entire Documents directory to D or use a symbolic link to point the game to the correct location. Here's a tutorial for each approach:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74952-move-location-documents-folder-windows-10-a.html
I uninstalled the Sims 4 , just to make sure that I didn't have the same files in the D drive and I still get the same error message. I'm not sure what's causing the issue.
@Missmagoo2 How are you trying to move the Sims 4 user folder, what location (file path) are you trying to move it to, and what's already there? A screenshot would be helpful.
@puzzlezaddict I was following the directions posted here: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-move-default-user-folders-new-drive-windows-10.
I've attached what's in my D Drive folder and D Drive Downloads folder.
@Missmagoo2 If you're trying to move all of Documents to D, it sounds like there's a folder already in D:\Documents that matches the name of a folder in the version of Documents on C. You could sort through this, or you could take a shortcut. Create a new folder on D, name it whatever you want, and move all the files inside D:\Documents to that new folder. Then repeat the steps to redirect Documents to D.
Once Documents has moved, you can sort through the other files and folders.
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