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#1 Old Yesterday at 6:53 PM Last edited by ws2003 : Yesterday at 6:53 PM. Reason: I
Default Sims 2 treats as if i just started playing it for the first time
I uninstalled OneDrive from my PC But that was a grave mistake. I nearly lost everything i have, and it fucked up my game too. When i play the game, it will be treated like i just started the game; No mods, no CAS sims, no sub-hoods, yada yada.
Everything else is visible outside of normal Gameplay, and in SimPE. My CAS Sims are hidden and the mods don't work anymore. And my files turn into read only all of the time, and it's probably because i did a grave mistake of hiding my documents, with properties because i am a dumbass.

What do i do?!
I have Sims 2 Ultimate Collection and i run my pc on Windows 11

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#2 Old Yesterday at 7:38 PM
Always backup everything (to a location preferably away from the computer, like an external harddrive/thumbdrive/similar) before doing changes like that. Always.

If OneDrive is affecting the Documents folder, it can and probably will delete or mess up files in the Documents folder when you attempt to remove it. If it hasn't deleted the files, it most likely did something to the folder path, so the game no longer reads the files properly, at least if the game was tied to the OneDrive path.

Check if this location still exists (either one, depends on game version) - "name" is the name of the computer:
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

It's possible your computer regenerated the folder when you ran your game after removing OneDrive. In that case, it will have reset everything to "factory settings" (a clean copy of the files in the install location).
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#3 Old Yesterday at 9:34 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmer22
Always backup everything (to a location preferably away from the computer, like an external harddrive/thumbdrive/similar) before doing changes like that. Always.

If OneDrive is affecting the Documents folder, it can and probably will delete or mess up files in the Documents folder when you attempt to remove it. If it hasn't deleted the files, it most likely did something to the folder path, so the game no longer reads the files properly, at least if the game was tied to the OneDrive path.

Check if this location still exists (either one, depends on game version) - "name" is the name of the computer:
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection
C:\Users\NAME\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2

It's possible your computer regenerated the folder when you ran your game after removing OneDrive. In that case, it will have reset everything to "factory settings" (a clean copy of the files in the install location).


It still exists. But once again, my Sims 2 thinks i just downloaded the game, even when i loaded a lot (more specifically the Pleasants Family) it asked me whether i want to enable game tips or not which only occurs if you reset your game tips (which i didn't) or just started playing for the first time

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#4 Old Today at 11:38 AM
It honestly sounds like your saves are gone. What you're describing is exactly what would happen if the C:/Users/User/Documents/EA Games folder was removed and the game created a new one.

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#5 Old Today at 2:22 PM
Quote: Originally posted by iforgot
It honestly sounds like your saves are gone. What you're describing is exactly what would happen if the C:/Users/User/Documents/EA Games folder was removed and the game created a new one.

idk maybe that happened but my sims are still visible thru SimPE and the mods are visible in downloads folder

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#6 Old Today at 2:42 PM
OneDrive is like a fricking virus. DX
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#7 Old Today at 2:49 PM
Quote: Originally posted by ws2003
idk maybe that happened but my sims are still visible thru SimPE and the mods are visible in downloads folder

What file path is SimPE looking at? Check your SimPE settings to see where your user data is set up to be. Then you could delete the fresh folders that the game has created and replace them with a copy of the folders that SimPE is seeing.

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#8 Old Today at 2:57 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
What file path is SimPE looking at? Check your SimPE settings to see where your user data is set up to be. Then you could delete the fresh folders that the game has created and replace them with a copy of the folders that SimPE is seeing.


idk why the savegame is in lowercase
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#9 Old Today at 3:15 PM
Go to that file path; that's where the files are. Make a safe copy of them! Then you need to look to see where the new files that your game created are.

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#10 Old Today at 3:35 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Go to that file path; that's where the files are. Make a safe copy of them! Then you need to look to see where the new files that your game created are.

I did but the new files are the same as the old files, same mods, same sims, same blah blah blah

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#11 Old Today at 3:53 PM
What is the location of the new files that you found?

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