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Angel55word
2 years ago
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Sims 4 Mods have filled my One Drive

Does EA get a cut of Microsoft One Drive Sales? I hate games saving to My Documents or requiring Mods to be placed there.  This artificially Bloats cloud storage. (I always knew the trend of games t...
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    Angel55word
    2 years ago

    I deleted the contents of the Mods folder from onedrive, leaving the folder in existance to test this and my one drive re-uploaded the content from my PC.

    I have however over night found 3 possible solutions;

    1. Turn off syncing documents folder and move all the files you do want to sync to another directory
    2. Move the Mods Folder to another drive and then create a folder that is actually a link to the new location (One Drive throws up an error that it can't back files up accross a link.)
      https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
    3. Set up an exclusion rule for .package and .ts4script in onedrive (Settings > Sync and back up > Advanced > Ecluded file extensions
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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

@Angel55word  If you remove the contents of the Mods folder, but leave the Mods folder itself intact, then copy back only its contents, does OneDrive still sync the files?  If you look at the option to sync individual files again, is Mods still unchecked even as OneDrive is uploading its contents?  And finally, are you sure that OneDrive is newly syncing the files rather than just preserving those it's already uploaded?

I can test on my own setup later today, but when I wrote this guide a few months ago, OneDrive didn't touch the contents of any folder after I'd told it not to sync that folder anymore.

Angel55word's avatar
Angel55word
2 years ago

I deleted the contents of the Mods folder from onedrive, leaving the folder in existance to test this and my one drive re-uploaded the content from my PC.

I have however over night found 3 possible solutions;

  1. Turn off syncing documents folder and move all the files you do want to sync to another directory
  2. Move the Mods Folder to another drive and then create a folder that is actually a link to the new location (One Drive throws up an error that it can't back files up accross a link.)
    https://www.howtogeek.com/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
  3. Set up an exclusion rule for .package and .ts4script in onedrive (Settings > Sync and back up > Advanced > Ecluded file extensions

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