@windchime226 Sims 4 sometimes uses the Public folder when it can't access the Documents directory as set by Windows. This in turn can happen if the location is set incorrectly or to a folder that's unusable, for example when Documents is still in OneDrive but OneDrive has been uninstalled.
At any rate, the first question is where your Documents directory is located. To find out, please search in Windows for Command Prompt, open it, and enter this command:
reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "Personal"
Let me know what you find. You can write [username] instead of your actual username if you wantm but please leave the rest of the file path intact, and let me know if the username is incorrect.
Hi! Thanks for your response.
You make a good point... I do recall when I transferred all my documents from my old PC to my new one, it came up with “syncing to OneDrive”. Honestly I’m not the most tech-knowledgeable person.
But I later got bombarded about ‘paying to upgrade’ OneDrive since it was ‘full’ during the syncing. I discovered OneDrive isn’t necessary so I uninstalled OneDrive and I signed out of it for good.
Anyway, I’ve followed your instructions and used Windows Command Prompt.
This is what comes up.
C:\Users\Username\OneDrive\Documents
(Also attached a screenshot, the censored parts is my username).
Is there a way to remedy this?
I really don’t want my PC to have anything to do with OneDrive anymore.
Thanks so much!
@windchime226 Use this guide:
Change the Personal value, nothing else, and use the default value listed in that guide. That should set C:\Users\your username\Documents as the location, and you can double-check your work by running the Command Prompt command again.
