the system cannot find file specified

RIGHT HELLO i dont even know if this is what im supposed to ask this on, but i was playing sims 4 earlier in the day and getting a lot of better exceptions alerts saying animation error when my sims would try to change outfits. i dont know if this is related to the issue im about to tell you about but i thought id give some backstory. i came back to play a couple of hours later and when i tried to load the sims, a error message read the system cannot find file specified. the ea app recommended i repair the sims 4, i clicked repair and it kept resetting the repairs so i kept trying to repair until something about permissions errors came up. i restarted my pc and that didnt work, i came on here to look for answers and i saw a lot of people having this problem because of their antiviruses. i tried to set their recommended folders as exceptions to my antivirus but that didnt work. i disabled my antivirus and that still isnt working. i am using windows security. any help would be appreciated. thank you.