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tweetypie96
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1 year 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 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
    1 year 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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  • GrimAce137's avatar
    GrimAce137
    Newcomer
    7 hours ago

    I need help! I’m doing the same of wanting to move my sims4 game from my local disk C: to my internal SSD D: for a bit more storage. I think im just lost as to how to transfer it over and with the commands you’re saying to use. Am I supposed to cut and paste the whole “Sims 4” game file or further than that like the whole EA folder? We’re really just trying to have more space for our mods and not break the game! Please help! Here’s some pictures of what we have so far.

    I downloaded and found the game still in the on the local disk C: even after we changed all the settings to download anything to the default D: disk.

    While this is what our Default D looks like and we can’t click on certain files like the Windows app without getting an “access denied” message. Is this even something I have to worry about? I only ask because I was asking for help from a friend who I guess was trying to poke around in there for me and was wondering why he can’t get in it. But any help at all is greatly appreciated!!

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    9 months ago

    laranbaroon​  Please post the command you're using.  Please also list the location where you want the user folder stored, e.g. D:\The Sims 4 or E:\Game Stuff\The Sims 4.

  • laranbaroon's avatar
    laranbaroon
    Rising Newcomer
    9 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m not tech savvy at all, I think I’ve tried exactly what your post said but it still isn’t doing it for me. I’m trying to put it into my G Drive. I didn’t have Sims 4 in the documents, I used the admin version, and all it saying is”the system cannot find the path specified”

    please help, I’ve been at this for hours 

  • tweetypie96's avatar
    tweetypie96
    Rising Novice
    1 year ago

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

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    1 year 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
    1 year 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
    Hero+
    1 year 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
    1 year 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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    1 year 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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