Sync Sims 4 saves across multiple computers?
I play The Sims 4 on both my laptop and my computer, however my progress on either of these is not reflected on the other. Is there any easy way to do this within Windows or is there a way to enable...
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Unfortunately The Sims 4 does not feature cloud saving. This means that any progress made on one computer is not carried over to another computer, even when you are logged into your Steam or Origin account.
A solid way around this is to set it up so that your Sims save location is linked to your Dropbox or OneDrive.
Ensure The Sims 4 is closed and then within File Explorer, navigate to C:\Users\<your_user>\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4
Copy the entire 'The Sims 4' folder to your desired location within OneDrive or Dropbox (you should have the program for either of these installed)
In the start menu, type 'cmd' and click 'Run as administrator' link
Type the following: mklink /d "[path to cloud service folder]" "[path to your documents folder]"
e.g. mklink /d "C:\Users\Oast\OneDrive\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves" "C:\Users\Oast\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves"
What this does is creates a symbolic link between your local Sims saves folder and your cloud storage saves folder, so any changes to your save file is also made to your cloud folder. If you do this on both computers then you will always have both of them linked.
It is worth noting that you will need to ensure you have adequate space in your cloud storage (the file size should however be negligible) and that your files are synchronised before playing.
You say to copy the entire 'The Sims 4' folder into OneDrive, but then in your path, it looks like you have copied the entire 'Electronic Arts' folder. Did you mix up, or am I misunderstanding something? Anyway, I tried both with copying my 'Electronic Arts' folder into OneDrive, and only my 'The Sims 4' folder, and I got the error message "Cannot create a file when that file already exists". When I tried without copying into OneDrive first, this error message showed: "The system cannot find the path specified".
I must have mis-typed something, but I'm not sure what. Here is my input:
C:\windows\System32>mklink /d "C:\Users\ninah\OneDrive - Universitetet i Oslo\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves" "C:\Users\ninah\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\saves"
Please let me know if you notice what might be wrong, thanks!
@ninevaha The "file already exists" error means exactly what it says: there's already a folder with the name "saves" in the location where you're telling Windows to place the symbolic link. An operating system can't allow for two files or folders with exactly the same name in the same location.
The "cannot find the file path" means that the folder where the symbolic link is supposed to go doesn't exist in the location you've typed. This makes sense because before you copied the Electronic Arts folder into OneDrive, that entire set of nested folders wasn't present, so Windows couldn't find the location you were telling it to access.
From your description, I believe all you need to do is remove the saves folder from OneDrive. I can't be sure, but just try it and see how it goes.
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