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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Save Game notification?

Okay, I've searched this multiple times and simply cannot find an answer. My game all of a sudden gave me this notification at the start menu saying something about the "save game was saved in a newe...
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    crinrict
    11 years ago

    Creating a shortcut doesn't move it.

    1. Click on this folder to select it: documents\electronicarts\thesims4\save
    2. Press CTL-X to cut
    3. Switch over to your desktop
    4. Press CTL_V to paste

    This should move your folder so that it's no longer in documents\electronicarts\thesims4\ 

    Then start the game and see if it works. If it does, Open the saves folder on your desktop and start putting the saves back (this time ctl-C to copy and ctl-V to paste. Do it one by one and test the game after each.

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Anonymous
11 years ago

OKAY, i just did the send to desktop (create a shortcut) thing. now what do i do?

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crinrict
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11 years ago

Creating a shortcut doesn't move it.

  1. Click on this folder to select it: documents\electronicarts\thesims4\save
  2. Press CTL-X to cut
  3. Switch over to your desktop
  4. Press CTL_V to paste

This should move your folder so that it's no longer in documents\electronicarts\thesims4\ 

Then start the game and see if it works. If it does, Open the saves folder on your desktop and start putting the saves back (this time ctl-C to copy and ctl-V to paste. Do it one by one and test the game after each.

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