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binkababy
New Novice
3 months ago

Transferring Sims 4 Over to SSD

Hello, my laptop storage is full and I can't do an update on the Sims 4 so after some research I decided to buy a portable SSD Drive to reinstall the Sims and my Expansion packs on to that instead. However, for some reason it completes the base game installation and half of my expansion packs, but then gets stuck/freezes and won't install the other half. It's nothing to do with storage space on my SSD as I have 2TB and it's nowhere near full but I have tried multiple times now and have even formatted my SSD to start over twice and yet is still does the same thing.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this keeps happening and know of any way to fix it?

Thank you

P. S. I have attached some pictures to show that is freezes and the error that pops up. (I also do not have any custom content) 

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Retired Hero
    3 months ago

    It looks like you run out of space for temporary files. Temporarily make more space available on your HDD while you install. You say you have plenty of space on your SSD so move some files there until you are done installing.

    • binkababy's avatar
      binkababy
      New Novice
      3 months ago

      What are temporary files? (sorry I'm not very good with technology) 😂 These are the storage space on both my OS and my SSD... What one is the HDD? 

       

      • jpkarlsen's avatar
        jpkarlsen
        Retired Hero
        3 months ago

        Temporary files are files that are temporarily used. For instance during downloads. Your C: drive should have almost enough free space while installing. A full install takes a little over 69GB. So free up a little more space during installation.

        HDD = Hard Disk Drive. SSD = Solid State Drive.

  • binkababy's avatar
    binkababy
    New Novice
    3 months ago

    So after trying again some more it seems everytime the preparation gets to 69% it stops and comes up with "something went wrong. Try again later" this happens every time no matter what Expansion Pack it is so I don't know if there's a reason why they're always stopping at 69%. I have 42 Expansion packs and it's always the same 10 that never work. If anyone is interested the packs that don't work are:

    Snowy Escape, Spa Day, Spooky Stuff, Strangerville, Tiny Living, Vampires, My Wedding Stories, Werewolves, For Rent and Horse Ranch 

    • barrub24yanv's avatar
      barrub24yanv
      Rising Novice
      3 months ago

      download ur sims 4 onto ur c hard drive,, once its download move ur mods and expansion packs to the ssd

      • binkababy's avatar
        binkababy
        New Novice
        3 months ago

        Can you have the base game and expansion packs on different drives? If that works I will give this a go 

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