If you are on Mac Catalina please check out this thread "The Sims 4 macOS Catalina Troubleshooting" .
I have the same problem, however I am trying to play the free trial for Windows and there is no EA folder in documents. I have already tried reinstalling Origins and it has not worked. I have checked task manager and the Sims 4 is not there. I have * down the PC and restarted it. Nothing seems to work.
Hi,
while i cant offer you a solution, I did want you to know that some of us have read your latest post, bluepixiestix has made a solid point based on our collective evidence, however, each one of us has had to find different work arounds, EA must know about this permissions issue, and in their unusual style, have offered no assistance to date. Perhaps now a good thread is established, you could reach out to EA and really Nag them about it, and I mean harass really, keep asking for help, daily,
I had to play sims 4 on a different machine entirely and it was fine, but that was after i had tried everything that has been mentioned plus many other ideas.
fingers crossed someone reading this has a better suggestion for you,
let us all know how you get on.
Greetings @smolragefellow
You can try Right clicking the game's shortcut on your desktop > Run as Administrator.
This will automatically give it admin permission to run.
If it doesn't work, try running Origin with admin permissions.
Do let me know what happens after you do that :3
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