@76345a Lots of people have had OneDrive issues of some kind, and usually the easiest intervention is to disable it entirely. If you don't want to do that, you can instead tell it to stop syncing the contents of Documents:
Please also let me know whether your system's Documents directory is pointing to OneDrive. Open a File Explorer window, right-click on Documents in the left panel, select Properties > Location, and you'll see a file path that does or does not include OneDrive.
Just to clarify... PDPDPD is me pdpdp is One Drive
Quick Access Documents : NO points to E:\GAME BACKUPS FROM PDPDPD\pdpdp
this location is on my backup drive
"This PC": E:\GAME BACKUPS FROM PDPDPD\pdpdp\pdpdp\OneDrive
One Drive Documents : C:\Users\pdpdp\OneDrive and shares with \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp\OneDrive\Documents\Electronic Arts
so it is sharing with itself?
C:\Users\PDPDPD\Documents\ Unsure because it has a sharing with \\SIMS\Users\PDPDPD\Documents but no location tab
C:\Users\pdpdp\Documents no location but apparently shares with itself: \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp
So both versions on C: are not communicating.
E:\Game Backups from PDPDPD\pdpdp\pdpdp\OneDrive\Documents this is a back up drive does that count? I have several pretty much redundant backups of TS4 on my E: drive.
I like One Drive in that it gives me a terrabyte storage but actually don't like it gobbling my Sims files, as they are ever changing.
I hope you can figure it out, puzzle lover... it certainly IS a puzzle!
Ea has been sorely lacking with finding out what's wrong. Last night I waited for 3 1/2 hours for them to call me, gave up! went to bed cross-eyed!
Hopefully I will be better tonight. Going to read that article you sent now. 🙂 Really, thank you so much. I'm glad you took this on.
@76345a This kind of sounds like a mess, to be honest. Some of it is normal, e.g. OneDrive pointing to or sharing with a couple different locations. Some of it seems unnecessarily convoluted. I can try to unpack it with you if you'd like, but the easiest solution might be to create a new admin account and move your files to that one. That way, you can set it up exactly as you'd like, in terms of both Documents itself and OneDrive, rather than trying to untangle this mess.
Just to be clear, something like this:
C:\Users\pdpdp\Documents no location but apparently shares with itself: \\SIMS\Users\pdpdp
doesn't mean the Documents folder is sharing with itself, it means it's apparently sharing with or pointing to some other folder in a separate directory you've created and labeled SIMS. Perhaps it's on your external drive?
The files you tried to extract are not meant to be read by anything except Sims 4. They're also irrelevant in that the game will create or recreate them as necessary.
Well, as far as I can see, it's when I did the TS4 update that really messed things up with the green dot and having to sign out to get out of the game.
I had all my sims sorted out well and sent a bunch of them through university ☹️ the houses that I built! arrrrrrrgh!
I will try to stop One Drive from saving and Sims games.
I am so depressed. You can imagine.
I'm glad the files I tried to extract are not extractable!
It's OneDrive. Business applications are not meant to be on gaming machines.
It should have been choosable, not mandatory. I'm 71 I really don't need this mess!
So you think I should just start over again?
Yikes.
If you have any ideas, please write them here.
Thanks for trying.
@76345a I'm not suggesting you start over with your content, or with a new OneDrive/Microsoft account. My suggestion for a new user account was so that you'd have all default settings and could configure them in a simpler way than your current setup. The process would be something like this:
If you'd rather not do all of this though, we can try to work through your current setup. It's your choice, obviously, since it's your computer. And I understand why you'd like OneDrive, but at this point, allowing it to automatically sync anything at all can be more trouble than it's worth. So even if it's less convenient, it's probably better to at least block it from touching your Sims 4 folder. You can of course set it up to sync other folders, that's not difficult, and you can manually sync your game content whenever you want.
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