Move my Sims 4 Documents Folder to SSD?

[Longhammer717]

Good day everyone!

So i've been wondering if there is anyway I could move the Sims 4 Documents folder from my C drive to my E drive (SSD)?

I've been having issues with my game and mods, and I have tried just about all the methods I could find. So I was curious if I could move the documents folder to the same drive my game is installed on to see if that could help the stability of my gameplay?

I do know there is a way I can move my mods folder, but I was wondering if I can move the whole sims 4 documents folder in general (with all the Mods, Tray and etc.)

Thanks for reading, and have a good day!

[Husk]

Not without reinstalling your whole system to a new disc, or cloning the drive onto the other drive, as far as I'm aware.

[DatteBayo]

Yep, I tried doing that on my last laptop and it screwed up a lot of things. You'll have an easier time reinstalling everything to E, then copy and paste your saves and mods over to the new location.

[Oops19]

It's quite easy in case you want to use the Windows 'mklink /J foo bar' command. Better try it with some useless folders in TEMP before you accidentally remove your mods folder.

The performance while starting TS4 will likely not be better, but of course it can free up a lot of space on C. While it may improve the loading speed of other EA games.

 

Absolutely no need to install everything on a new drive or to order a new drive.

 

I moved the whole EA folder. The following commands should do it, 'mv and rmdir' may not work in a CMD. To avoid any issues one needs to remove "REM" to get them working.

In a nutshell
1. Copy the EA folder to E:

2. Rename or remove the EA folder - I suggest rename so you can switch back if it doesn't work - and delete it some days later.

3. Create the link (create a new virtual EA folder) to E:

REM Create link: "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Electronic Arts" --> E:\games\Origin\ElectronicArts
 

set sourceDir="C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\Electronic Arts"
set destDir="E:\games\Origin\ElectronicArts"

REM Copy %sourceDir% to destDir
REM And rename or delete %sourceDir%

REM mkdir "%destDir%"
REM xcopy /HESOX  "%sourceDir%\*" "%destDir%\"
REM mv "%sourceDir%" ""%sourceDir%.old"
REM OR: rmdir "%sourceDir%"
REM mklink /j "%sourceDir%" "%destDir%"