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caillou193
4 years ago

Sims4 game ignoring symlink and creating its own file when game opened

Hello, My pc not having enough space anymore, i decided to move my sims 4 file to an external drive. My pc works on windows 10 btw. I followed the instructions to create a symlink between the origi...
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caillou193
4 years ago
@puzzlezaddict
Hello, i followed this intructions :
https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html
and redirected them to a folder in my externel drive containing the direct files for the sims 4.
I will post a picture of it when i have access to my computer, but if i click on the symlink file to open it it does open normally the real file. For the new file creating itself, it just appears in the electronic art file beside the symlink.
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jpkarlsen
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago

@caillou193 

If for any reason your external drive was temporarily unavailable when starting the game this will happen.

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