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Re: How to Play Sims 4 off an external drive

@NaamarTissue Right, you really need to separate the game's program files from the user folder. Not doing so is asking for trouble, and probably sooner rather than later.

If you want to install the game elsewhere, move anything inside E:\The Sims 4 that you'd like to preserve to a new location, then uninstall the game through the EA App and reinstall it wherever you like. This can be a folder on E, for example E:\Games; it just can't be in the same location as the user data.

If you'd like to leave the game where it is, you can create a folder on E and redo the symlink so it points to that new location. For example, you might create E:\Sims Data, then when you redo the symlink, the last part of the command would be "E:\Sims Data\The Sims 4" (just like that).

Either approach is fine, but this is really important to do in one way or another.

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NaamarTissue
New Rookie
1 year ago
Okay so I deleted and redownloaded it in a folder so it's not directly in the user. It downloaded perfectly!
I just booted it up and it's working!
Only downside if that only the most recent save file is being registered in game.
At least we fixed my initial problem!
Any idea on how to fix the rest of my saves? No worries if not, i'm sure i'll find something
Thank you so much for your help!
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
1 year ago
@NaamarTissue Since you know the game is reading the most recent save, you know where to put your other save files. Make sure they're all named in the proper format, as I mentioned in post 9. The saves that end in .verx are backups of the saves with the same number, so you can ignore these unless the main save with a given number doesn't load, in which case try restoring one of the backups. To do that, renumber the file and delete the .verx extension, so the name ends in .save instead.

If this doesn't help, please post a screenshot of the contents of the folder that contains your saves, as in, I'd like to see the file names and sizes. Let me know which save is the one that currently shows up.
NaamarTissue
New Rookie
1 year ago
I got it working!
I had taken out all the .verx cause I was told to delete them. Luckily I saved them on my desktop! I put them back in my save folder and now they show up in game!
Got them working and everything is good now!
Thank you so much for your help!