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Re: Move sims 4 game from C drive to D drive issues

@izabellazz There are two separate Sims 4 folders on your computer. One holds the game's program files, which is the data the EA App installs, and you can tell the App to install the game (almost) anywhere, with no special process necessary. It sounds like you successfully installed the game on your D drive.

The user folder holds saves, mods, etc., and is always located in Documents > Electronic Arts. If you want to redirect this folder elsewhere, you'll need to create a symbolic link. Here's how:

https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html

If this doesn't work, please post a screenshot of the Command Prompt window showing the command you used and the error you received.

Finally, please make sure that you are NOT combining the game's program files and user data. The user folder can be wherever you want on D as long as it's not the same folder as the program files.

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izabellazz
1 year ago
Hey thanks for replying, and explaining it better so i understand hehe (took me blood sweat and some tears to make sense of the game program files and electronic arts folder) i successfully made junction links in cmd from D drive to C drive yesterday but the game won't start bc of out of date mods (i have double checked that some mods work and tray /saves also work) i have downloaded 3 different kinds of mod identifier programs but i think the junction links makes it hard for the programs to identify the mods correctly (in one of the programs it just said that all my mods were red).
Do you know a workaround for this/another solution? i sincerely do not want to manually go through 5,5 k mods hehe.
Thanks in advance
izabellazz
1 year ago
@puzzlezaddict the reply was meant for u, forgot to tag you 🙂
izabellazz
1 year ago
@puzzlezaddict update: the junction links ONLY works and i can only see them in electronic arts folder on C drive when i have mods, tray and saves in program files/sims4 on d drive, chatgpt said (and you also said) this can conflict with the game - when i try to start the game with the folders in program files it gives me an error message ( 135dec40:29f00e76:00000084:18a1dd51 ) i am guessing that is because the folders are in program files (first i thought it was because i had out of date mods, as my last reply to you suggested), so i moved them into a folder i made myself called Sims 4 Data, CMD just gives me "The system cannot find the path specified" -.-
my commands;
mklink /J "C:\Users\boop\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Saves" "D:\Sims 4 Data\sevas"
mklink /J "C:\Users\boop\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Tray" "D:\Sims 4 Data\yart"
mklink /J "C:\Users\boop\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods" "D:\Sims 4 Data\sdom"
i have checked the path multiple times and it exists.. what am i doing wrong?
puzzlezaddict
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1 year ago
@izabellazz Why are the folder names backwards in your commands? If the folder names on D are NOT backwards, that would be the problem.

Having said that, please make a symbolic link for the entire Sims 4 folder rather than the subfolders. It's simpler to troubleshoot and cuts down on the potential for error. So the command (after moving or renaming the original Sims 4 folder) would be:

MKLINK /J "C:\Users\boop\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "D:\Sims 4 Data\The Sims 4"

The point here is, there needs to be an Electronic Arts folder in C > Users > boop > Documents, but NOT a Sims 4 folder inside this Electronic Arts folder.

However, before making any changes, please find out how your D drive is formatted. You can check by clicking Windows key-X and selecting Disk Management. If it's formatted as anything other than NTFS, that may be the issue, and you'll need to change it. Formatting the drive would erase it, so rescue any data you wouldn't want to lose first.