@AirJordansGirl
The game by default will always create the current game folder in Documents. To change this, you must move The Sims4 folder to an external drive. if you create a symbolic link, the game will see that, There are advantages and the negative side of it. How to do it and what to avoid after doing it, you'll find it here
https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html
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I am trying to move both the game AND my mods folder to an external drive. I followed the steps to redirect the path of the game and then I followed the steps, as directed at Crinrict's blog. Everything downloaded as expected, except three expansion packs - Moschino Stuff, First Pet and Toddler Stuff. They won't "download" and I get the following error message for each pack:
"Origin is not able to download The Sims™ 4 Moschino Stuff Pack to D:\Origin Games\The Sims 4\SP15\ResourceClient.cfg_DiP_STAGED.
Please check that the location is available or cancel and restart the download to another location."
Has anyone seen this before? I have approximately 36.9 GB of space left on the external drive so it doesn't seem that space is the issue, but I can't figure out from the error message what the issue could possibly be.
How much free space do you have on your C: drive? There must be enough space for temporary files.
Also note that symbolic links can easily break if Windows for any reason decides to change the drive letter of the external disk or it loses connection. Because of this a symbolic link should only be seen as a short term solution.
That did not work, for me. This one did, but none of my saves showed up and, eventually, my mods stopped showing up...
[CM Edit: Link removed]
@sarahsimmer Generally speaking, please use this guide instead:
In your particular case, please start by listing the full file path to the Sims 4 folder the game is reading. Here's how to find it:
https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/
I tried that. This is what it said...
I tried the other way. Now, getting this...
Now this...
Now, it is telling me "Access is denied"...
@sarahsimmer Again, please list the full file path to the folder the game itself is reading, as described in the second link I posted earlier.
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