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@SimsSailBe You may have corrupt or outdated mods or custom content. Please move your Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, launch the game to make sure it works, and then start adding your content to the new folder in batches. Start with mods and cc; leave your saves for last. Any time the game stops working, you'll need to split the most recent batch of files you moved and retest until you find the problem.
Unless you really want to sync all your Sims 4 content, you don't need to pay for extra OneDrive storage. It's easy enough to prevent OneDrive from automatically syncing the Documents folder, and you can still manually upload files when you want. If you'd like help configuring your setup, let me know what you'd prefer to do.
my mod folder got full and i had no storage left so i stopped syncing to onedrive but now new things i download dont even show up in my game unless i sync it.
- puzzlezaddict3 years agoHero+
@naloodles What folder is the game reading? Please load Sims 4 and have a look, as described here:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/
Please write out the entire file path you see, or post a screenshot.
- 3 years ago
i really wish it wasnt saving to onedrive bc im not tryna pay for more storage...
- roberta5913 years agoHero (Retired)
@naloodles Microsoft has made it hard to stop OneDrive. You can open OneDrive settings and exclude the user/documents/Electronic Arts folder from syncing. Exempting this folder allows the game to function normally. This will allow other programs to use the user documents folder the way Windows wants to and won't affect any other programs. Once you have turned off syncing for the game you'll want to check keep files on this device (computer?). Options can not be changed while OneDrive is in the process of syncing' You have to let it conclude whatever it is doing. OneDrive may not svnc right away and those files are not available until OneDrive does what it does. I have a gaming rig and I do not backup my games. For other computers I backup to a local NAS (network attached storage) I setup in the Windows XP days. You can unlink your computer from your Microsoft account but that could affect access to the Microsoft store. You could stop syncing the user documents folder but that could affect other programs. You could stop OneDrive from starting at boot but that doesn't stop OneDrive from being called by another program. It could help in case the computer has a storage device malfunction. To setup a backup strategy for the Sims game to a thumb drive and using basic script language would not be hard.
add: ypu can uninstall OneDrive and if need be reinstall it from the Microsoft store.
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