How to move Games to external hard drive - EA APP (Sims) BACKUP SAVE FILES BEFORE DOING ANYTHING !!

THIS IS FOR MOVING THE GAME FILES. NOT THE MODS AND SAVES FOLDERS. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO BACK UP ALL SAVE FILES AND ANY TRAY FILES / MODS BEFORE DOING ANYTHING! If you already have the game installed maybe try and uninstalling the game and then making sure that the location for the download of games is relocated to your external hard drive and then install the game again to that location. Then simply add back in the save files, tray files and mods and go from there. As long as the location of your games location isn't changed from the external hard drive and the hard drive is plugged in when opening the app. All games / updates will go there.

A heads up people - You only move the GAME onto the external harddrive, not the CC, mods or saves. If you move CC, mods or saves onto it, you kind of can never remove the external harddrive or it will mess up your game! So why would you move only the game, and none of your personal conent onto the external? To save space. The sims game takes up massive space on your PC, around 20-30 GB. Your personal files don't take up so much space.

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Oh my gosh! I did NOT expect this to work!! Thank you, I was about to cry 😂.

Ah, thank you for this! So simple and straight to the point, THANK YOU :D xxx

This is wayyy easier than I’m used to, but I’m going to see if it works!

I done this so many times but the EA app keeps on uninstalling the game after 24 hours. I don't know what to do and it's really frustrating that I feel like I tried everything and nothing is working.

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This didn't work for me. I'm so annoyed, there's not enough space left on my laptop to download the nuew update, and can't play unless update is downloaded. I'm going crazy! Can anyone please help?

i like the bit where you didnt actually show how to move the game to the external hard drive

hi i’m a little confused. If i just download the sims onto my external hardrive, do I put my mods,saves etc into the sims folder that’s on the hardrive? some comments say no but your comment says to move it. i’m so confused. what do I do with my old sims folder and where do I put my mods and stuff?

Will this also work with Mods/CC? If I move the game can I make a copy of my mods folder and move it into the external hard drive?

Do you know how to change the letter off the file? I cant change my hard drive from E to C.

Do you know how to move the actual app to the external drive everytime I download it- it goes to the c drive even though in settings my apps are set to go to the other drive

Do you know what size external hard drive storage capacity would be most acceptable? (i just want the sims, no other games) please

I've been trying to move my sims for 3 days now but everytime i keep getting stuck at the "preparing to download", im not sure if im supposed to wait this out but it's stuck at at 50% before it even downloads, is this an internet thing?

Hi I’m struggling to get my game to download onto my external hard drive every time it gets to 100% the same message pops up every time saying “ Error: The VC++ runtime redistributable package was not installed successfully, set up cannot continue. (False) “ I’ve spent countless hours trying to fix this problem and I’ve got no where any ideas?

Okay, so I uninstall my game then reinstall following the directions above but are my mods still on my desktop?

So I installed directly onto the external drive but it will never finish verifying game files?