Sims 4 directory folder changed
I'm not sure why, perhaps it was a Windows 10 update? I opened the Sims 4 via Origin today and all my mods/saves/settings etc were not found. They are still in their original folders (not deleted) b...
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@BabyForPree It's possibly the windows 10 update. SInce the only way to move your documents folder from C to D is by changing the windows path, maybe the windows update reverted it?
- go to your documents folder
- in the menu with the quick access on the left, right click the documents folder
- select properties
- go to the location tab
- change location
- go to your documents folder
- in the menu with the quick access on the left, right click the documents folder
- select properties
- go to the location tab
- change location
@DeanXeL is it not possible to do it only for Sims folders? I have many important things pinned/shortcuts etc from the documents folder, and changing the location messes with these. I'm also worried this action is going to have negative effects on other programs/games that I can't think of right now. I like my documents where they are :/
- @BabyForPree yes you can, by creating a symbolic link for the folder, but it's quite elaborate and a little less reliable.
Origin/EA app only allows to change the location of your game (not the saves) and windows only has an inherent way to change the entire directory, not elements in it. And since you mentioned you've had it before, I figured that's how it could have been. 🙂 No shortcuts will be affected by changing the location of Documents in Windows..
- @jpkarlsen the other issues i brought up still remain, and I didn't necessarily mean Windows' definition of shortcuts.
@BabyForPree It sounds like a symbolic link is the best option for your current setup. They're quite reliable, as long as you're careful with the syntax, and not all that complicated to make.
As for why this happened in the first place, what was your original setup? There's no way that Sims 4 would have automatically read your user data if it was outside of your Documents directory, which makes me think perhaps you had a symlink set up in the first place and it was recently deleted. As to how or why that happened, I can only speculate, but OneDrive is often the culprit when unwanted changes are made to the contents of Documents.
What other issues are you seeing right now, aside from your user data not being read?
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