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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.