Tried to get rid of symbolic link but EA still recognises SSD as main location

Question

I successfully opened and ran my game on my SSD with mods and CC. I now have a new laptop. And I tried to unlink my symbolic link by using the: rmdir MKLINK "%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4" but would get: The system cannot find the file specified. The directory is not empty." When I opened my game from the EA app it opened as a completely new game, as if I had no saves, trays etc. I copied my mods, trays, saves, and screenshots from my SSD over to Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4. The symbolic link isn't there anymore as in the arrow next to my folder under Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4, isn't there anymore.

After copying my mods, saves etc. from my SSD to my Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4, I opened my game and it greeted me with my saves, and mods as normal but as if I had just installed Sims onto my laptop again. However my SSD doesn't eject until anything EA/The Sims is closed (I do this through task manager). Did I do it right? I don't want to chance deleting my SSD files and risk losing my saves and mods.

If I did do this as normal, do I copy my saves, mods, trays, and screenshots onto a hard drive and then copy them over to my new laptop, and will work as normal? Thank you!

puzzlezaddict · Answer

@sofuuuh&nbsp; It sounds like you've handled this correctly, at least the part that concerns user files.&nbsp; Do you have Sims 4's program files on the SSD?&nbsp; If so, you'd need to uninstall the game through the EA App and reinstall it on your internal drive.&nbsp; Actually, you don't "need to" do this unless you don't want your SSD involved at all.&nbsp; But having the program files there would explain why you can't eject the drive while running the game.

If you're not sure where the game is installed, open your EA App game library, click Sims 4, then Manage &gt; View properties, and you'll see the file path there:

If Sims 4 is on your internal drive, please restart your computer without the SSD connected, then launch Sims 4 and let me know if anything is amiss.&nbsp; If you get an error message, please post a screenshot.