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3 years ago

Sims 4 is ignoring install location in favor of onedrive's save location

Sims 4 is saving to onedrive even though the install directory is on a entirely different drive, Ive signed out of onedrive and its completely ignoring it

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  • @vik5907  The location where Sims 4 stores user data is independent of the install location.  The user folder is always going to be in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4, with Documents being this user's Documents directory.  If that, in turn, is in OneDrive, then that's where the Sims 4 folder will land.

    If you want to move your Documents directory outside of OneDrive, that's usually simple:

    https://www.elevenforum.com/t/move-or-restore-default-location-of-documents-folder-in-windows-11.8708/

    If you want to redirect the Sims 4 folder to your secondary drive, you can do so with a symbolic link:

    https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html

    However, you may need to write out the full file path to the current Sims 4 folder instead of just %userprofile% as is in the guide.  For example, the command might look like this:

    MKLINK /J “C:\Users\someusername\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” “E:\The Sims 4”

    Please back up your Sims 4 user data before creating the symlink just in case something goes wrong.  (It shouldn't, but better to be safe than sorry.)  And you'll need to remove the existing Sims 4 folder from the location where you want to place the symlink.  The destination folder can and should be present; I'm talking about the folder in the location the game is currently reading.

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