![]() All of that is now open for The Sims 4 players as well! Steam has a unique way of bringing their community together with user reviews, achievements, trading cards and forums. Some even like showcasing their entire video game collection that they have over there considering the vast majority of titles available on that platform. There are many gamers out there who prefer playing video games exclusively through the Steam platform. ![]() What benefits are there to The Sims 4 arriving on Steam? The expansion of The Sims 4’s collection over on Steam doesn’t have a single affect on your current preferred platform. If you now start the game, you should have all your saves and all other user data like it was before.How does this affect current The Sims 4 players on Origin? You should now see a link to the Sims 4 folder in your Documents\Electronic Arts folder “Connection created for %UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4″ > E:\The Sims 4“ ( for your path) You should now see the following in the command prompt window Highlight MKLINK /J “%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” “E:\The Sims 4” in the text document (make sure to adjust the path of the folder to fit your needs) > Right-click on the highlighted text and choose Copy > Activate the Command Prompt window > Right-Click on the command prompt Window Copy the command line you saved in the text document after the prompt.Press and type CMD > Right-click on Command Prompt in the > Run as Administrator.MKLINK /J “%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” “E:\The Sims 4” So this would be the full command for the example. (replace with the actual path of the moved Sims 4 folder.įor the above example, the path is E:\The Sims 4 MKLINK /J “%UserProfile%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4” Create an empty text file and copy the following line into the file.You should now not see a Sims 4 folder in C:\Users\\ Documents\Electronic Arts\ anymore but one on the new drive that you picked. Navigate to the external drive that you want to use and right-click in the main menu and choose Paste.To do so, right-Click on the Sims 4 folder in C:\Users\\ Documents\Electronic Arts\ and choose Cut Move the folder The Sims 4 folder from C:\Users\\ Documents\Electronic Arts\ to their new destination (in the example, that will be the external drive E:\).Make sure Origin (or other gaming clients) are closed.All you need to find out is in which folder the data is store and then do the instructions for that folder. The method is explained with the example of Sims 4 but should work accordingly with any other game or application that has data in the documents folder. Make sure to create a backup of the folder you want to move with a symbolic link and read instructions in full before starting. The method requires computer knowledge and is not recommended for beginners. Doing the symbolic link method is done at your own risk.The drive letter is essential for this method to work and needs to stay the same. If you use multiple USB devices and often pull and plug them back in, make sure you do so in the same order.A good tutorial for that can be found here: How to Move Your Documents Folder Location in Windows This has the advantage that it is done by a function provided in Windows and frees up a lot more space on the c drive. If you have a second internal harddrive or a second partition on your main harddrive that has enough space, it’s recommended to move the entire Windows documents folder to that drive. ![]()
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