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tweetypie96
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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 myself and I just can't seem to do it correctly (a lot of googling, looking at youtube videos and reading forums) 

I have a Acer Nitro 5 laptop (windows 11) and I recently bought a internal SSD card (2 TB - Crucial P3 Pulse M.2) (J: Drive) because I was running out of storage ahaha

I have the EA App and all my downloads goes to my C: Drive

Currently have no saved game files as I decided to go on a purge after all the  recent updates loool 

Everything in relation to Sims 4 (EA App/actual game/expansions/kits/stuff/saves/mods/tray/cc/etc) is currently installed on my C: Drive 

I want to move the Sims 4 folder (specifically mods/cc/tray/save files) to the J: Drive so I have space to download all the mods/cc I want🤩

So far I have tried to move the mods folder only, the whole Sims 4 folder, the whole Electronic Arts folder and my whole Documents folder, as well as, trying to do that symbolic link thingy and more but all my attempts keep failing and I can't figure out where I'm going wrong  (at one point I had to redownload all my packs again... but lets not dwell on that ahaha)

All my attempts, so far, have resulted in none of my mods/cc showing and a new Documents/Electronic Arts folder respawns in my C: Drive (my mods/cc are currently on my J: Drive)

So any simple/easy to understand advice? (please dumb it down to like the average intelligence level of a 5 year old 🙏)

Thank you so much in advance ❤️

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    21 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's avatar
    tweetypie96
    Rising Novice
    19 days ago

    OMG THAT WAS IT!!! 😃 thank you sooooo much for your help 

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    19 days ago

    tweetypie96  Use Command Prompt, the admin version, not PowerShell.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that.  Search in Windows for command prompt and choose the option to run as an admin.

  • tweetypie96's avatar
    tweetypie96
    Rising Novice
    20 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

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    21 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.

  • tweetypie96's avatar
    tweetypie96
    Rising Novice
    22 days ago

    Hi puzzlezaddict 😊 thank you for repling so quickly!

    The folder sims 4 is currently using - "C:\Users\Shann\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Screenshots\"

    The location of the J: Drive I would like - "J:\Sims 4 Data\The SIms 4"

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    22 days ago

    tweetypie96  I'd be happy to give more specific advice, but first, please list the location of the user folder Sims 4 is currently reading.  Here's how to find it:

    https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2018/07/how-to-find-your-user-folder/

    Please also list the location where you'd like the folder to be on J.  It can be directly on J if you want, but if you're going to use that drive for other data, it would probably be best to create another folder first.  So the path wouldn't be J:\The Sims 4 but rather J:\Sims Data\The Sims 4 or similar.

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