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abc1631824435
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2 years ago

Sims 4 Folders in One Drive taking up memory

Hello,

I've noticed my storage is always full for my Outlook e-mails account. When looking, half the memory is taken up by OneDrive.

I looked in and a huge chunk of that is Sims4 stuff that could just be on my desktop. How do I go about removing or moving this folder? 

I'm not tech savvy at all but I found instructions on here through settings in OneDrive to unsync and it wouldn't let me uncheck the box so I can't do that. 

Could someone please help? In the 'olden' days all the sims files were just in a folder on the desktop or in the C drive. I only use OneDrive for microsoft word docs on personal computer as I don't have an office licence but I don't really care about having OneDrive to be honest.

Thanks,
PerkP

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @abc1631824435  What box were you trying to uncheck, and what was the error message?  Please post a screenshot.

    Please also let me know whether there are any other files in Documents that you absolutely need to have synced with OneDrive.  A simple workaround would be to deselect Documents in its entirety, and manually upload what you want to OneDrive to have, but that might not be the most convenient approach for you.

    There are several workarounds here; I just want to know your setup so I can make the most appropriate suggestion.

  • abc1631824435's avatar
    abc1631824435
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    2 years ago

    Hello 🙂

    Thanks for replying, really appreciate it. Screen shot attached.

    I only have a few word documents, my CV etc, not a heavy user of my personal laptop just occasional gaming. None of it needs to be synced to OneDrive but I can't edit things unless it's uploaded into OneDrive as I don't have an Office licence. 

    Happy to manually pick and choose and upload to OneDrive myself 🙂

    Thanks!

    PerkP

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @abc1631824435  There are two easy approaches here.  One is to deselect only the Electronic Arts folder.  Expand the Documents section in your screenshot (click the › next to it), and you should be able to uncheck Electronic Arts, or The Sims 4 inside that.  Your other documents will sync, just not your Sims data.  Or you can stop Documents from syncing entirely, as described here:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/CURRENT-ISSUE-Sims-4-saves-user-content-disappearing-PC/m-p/12475370#Disabled

    It's a different process than what you're trying to do, necessarily because the current location of the Documents directory is inside the OneDrive folder and Windows needs to move it for this setting to work.  Exempting only a subfolder, e.g. Electronic Arts, is simpler and can be done in the menu you've found.

    If you do decide to stop Documents from syncing, you can manually upload files to onedrive.com.  Or you can put the files you want synced on your desktop, if you leave syncing enabled for the desktop.  In that case, if anyone later tells you to move the Sims 4 folder to the desktop for troubleshooting purposes, which is a common suggestion, just rename the folder instead.  Both accomplish the same thing, which is to keep the game from loading your existing user data while you try to fix a problem.

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