@antisocialtater I've moved your post to the Sims 4 PC tech section.
The easiest intervention would be to stop OneDrive from auto-syncing Documents. You could still upload content manually of course.
You seem to think that these are temporary files but that is not the case, It is userfiles (Saves, Screenshots and other files) that are saved Under Documents as per Microsofts recommendations. This is not a bug but works as intended both by Microsoft and EA. As @puzzlezaddict mentioned a Symbolic link is the only solution if you do not want to move Documents. If you play other games you will likely have noticed that they also save their userfiles under Documents. Some don't such as Online only games.
@jpkarlsen You seem to think those are not temporary files, but that is not the case. The game actually writes temporary files in the documents folder, and they are deleted when I exit the game. I'm talking about the scratch folder under the saves folder, which contains hundreds of temporary files. A scratch folder is, by definition, a temporary folder. Apart for causing useless network traffic by synching those temporary files to OneDrive, because it writes them in an incorrect location instead of a location dedicated for temporary files, it also causes causes warnings from OneDrive when I exit the game, when it deletes those temporary files. The warning looks like this:
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_space , if you don't believe me that scratch folders contain temporary files. After working for 30 years in IT and software development, trust me, I know the difference between temporary files and user files perfectly. But in any case, regardles of the name of the directory, since they are deleted when exiting the game, they are clearly temporary files. Which proves this is a bug.
You did not mention the scratch folder in your posting and neither did the OP but you are correct that that is a temporary folder.
The correct place to post about that is in the bugs forum where there is a template you can fill in.
Yeah, sorry, I confused this thread with another related thread, which specifically mentions the hundreds/thousands of temporary files stored there that repeatedly get deleted:
Don't apologize. Its a totally broken feature because they designed it that way, not a "bug". Its bad programming by a lazy company that the could easily fix but they don't. Either you have the game upload gigabytes of data for no reason, or you gimp windows features because the Sims is broken.
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