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4 years ago

New cc not working after using a symbolic link

Hello. I've been playing the Sims 4 for a long time now and everything always worked fine. One problem, all of my cc/mods were starting to take too much space in my pc. So i bought an external hard drive and used a symbolic link so it would work ( i used MKLINK /J "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "D:\The Sims 4" ).

Everything seemed to work fine, my Electronic Art file was in my external drive and was functional, or so i thought.

Recently, i downlaoded a few new cc but they weren't showing up in CAS or in game at all. I also deleted some cc but for some reasons my game still read them ! It's like my game only read the cc/mods i had from before i used the symlink, it's very weird. Somebody help please.

13 Replies

n5y5gt5v3g3h
3 years ago
@puzzlezaddict I think I deleted it all on accident idk what to do should I just reinstall it to start over like I’m so lost and I did a bunch of crazy stuff because I didn’t know how to fix it ☹️ I had to create my own saved and mods I think or something idk but I really messed it up
XTheLoveWitchX
3 years ago
I Literally did this exact same thing any time i add cc it doesn't work anymore after the launched switched from origin to ea. I've lost years of collected cc and now even new cc doesn't work or causes it to crash.... I give up
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
3 years ago
@n5y5gt5v3g3h Delete the saves and Mods folders you've created and let the game create new ones. If you don't see those new ones, find the file path to the Sims 4 user folder in-game, as described here:

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

That's where the saves and Mods folders will be.

@XTheLoveWitchX Have you tried downloading new custom content that's confirmed compatible with the newest patch (1.95)? If not, please try that now.

For the cc that isn't working at all, please confirm that it's in the correct folder using the in-game method explained in the link above.