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tweetypie96
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23 days ago
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Sims 4 folder to my internal SSD drive but won't show when I launch the game

Hiiii :) Hope I'm posting this in the right forum! Hoping someone could possibly help me because I'm about losing the will trying to figure this out/fix this. I've been trying for a few days by mys...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    22 days ago

    tweetypie96  The command you'll want to use is this:

    MKLINK /J "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "E:\Sims 4 Data\The Sims 4"

    Make sure the Sims 4 folder is present on J AND that there is no Sims 4 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts.  If your data is still all on C, move it to your external first: right-click the folder and Cut, then right-click and Paste.

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puzzlezaddict
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22 days ago

tweetypie96  The command you'll want to use is this:

MKLINK /J "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "E:\Sims 4 Data\The Sims 4"

Make sure the Sims 4 folder is present on J AND that there is no Sims 4 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts.  If your data is still all on C, move it to your external first: right-click the folder and Cut, then right-click and Paste.

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tweetypie96
Rising Novice
21 days ago

Hey puzzlezaddict :) thank you again! so I tried that but I get this error:

 

PS C:\Users\Shann> MKLINK /J "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "E:\Sims 4 Data\The Sims 4"
MKLINK : The term 'MKLINK' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ MKLINK /J "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" "E:\Si ...
+ ~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (MKLINK:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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