@puzzlezaddict The OP only excluded the Sims 4 mods folder. If you read my answer I recommended excluding the usesr>documents>Electronic Arts folder. The OP only is playing Sims 4 but if she decides to play Sims 3 there will be no problems. I don't know (or care) if other EA games are having this issue and this should not effect other programs. Right now there might (probably) be issues with the save game files. Right now the ONLY thing that is not getting synced is the mods folder. If I am right she might (probably) run out off free OneDrive space sooner or later. There are several posts reporting this issue (and probably more coming up) . If you click keep files on this device (computer?) you will see the excluded files getting copied back to the user documents folder. There are other programs besides this game that use OneDrive and actually some people may even want (or have to) use OneDrive to sync files. Microsoft built data centers to provide cloud storage. I know this because I worked in one. MS would like you to run out of free storage. I think you can figure out why. Seeing as MS wants you to use OneDrive I thought I'd figure out a way to keep OneDrive intact and still solve the problem. You could uninstall OneDrive (like some users have done) but I don't know (or care) how tightly OneDrive is integrated into Windows therefore I figured this out to solve the issue and keep OneDrive happy. BTW that is the first thing I tried is to uninstall OneDrive. You can reinstall OneDrive from the MS store. Btw if you uninstall OneDrive you get a periodic nag message you did that. So you see if the OP leaves it the way it is the problem is not completely solved. I don't want or need OneDrive. I have NAS boxes and before that I used Colorado tape drives for backup devices. I styled much of my programming after James Gordon Letwin's programming style. So creating a backup strategy was just another project.
@roberta591 Personally, I don't care that Microsoft wants people to use OneDrive, just like I don't care that Apple wants people to use iCloud Drive. I don't allow it in either OS and don't have my Microsoft account linked in either Windows install. This has caused zero problems for me in five years.
Just because Microsoft and Apple want to train people to use and eventually pay for cloud storage doesn't mean I need to tailor my recommendations to fit. Keeping OneDrive happy is not one of my goals, and keeping Windows happy has never required and still doesn't require cooperating with OneDrive.
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