Don't mind the ones in the "public" folder paths, it's just a Windows 10/11 thing. They're supposed to be empty, and as long as those are empty, they're fine, nothing to worry about.

Likely, your files were moved to the new location (Desktop?) when you removed OneDrive. I'm guessing the "Desktop" location is the one that the game now reads from, since it made new files there.

You should be able to copy over the old files (as in, delete the folders inside "The sims 2 ultimate collection" from the working path, copy/paste in the ones from the not-working path, and try running the game again. DO NOT OVERWRITE FOLDERS!!! Or you'll have even more issues going on).

(Make sure to do a backup of your old game first, just in case).

So do i like copy the files from my normal documents Sims 2 ultimate collection folder to my new sims 2 desktop folder or...

(Edited my post above a bit)

You'll need to figure out which path the game is reading from. Then you copy your old game over there (again - delete, then copy/paste files, don't overwrite).

I don't know how. My game thinks there's no mods, cas sims, etc when those sims are all located in all my sims 2 savegame folders (idk why i have multiple.)

How do you mean? Are you referring to the one on your desktop?

....not really. I am never deleting One drive with Sims 2 installed again.

In your last image, are all of the usernames identical, or is the idki5 one different from yours? It's normal for a game to make save paths for all users.

I still didn't get an answer about this-
"What is the full file path of the savegame folder in this image:"
https://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img...11-19135638.png


The thing is though, there is a set of complete userdata in the expected location (shown on the screenshots). If the hoods are in the folder they should show in-game, even if CC is disabled.

There's a difference between the games - I can see that one of the savegame folders was created the 17th (desktop/Documents), while the other has been used for quite some time (Documents path). Which one the game is using? Most likely the one with the newly generated savefiles.

The easiest way to check which folder your game is using is to give it a test. You can do things like running Bodyshop and make a sim (see which SavedSims folder the file ends up in), or take C-button pictures in a neighborhood and see which savegame folder the pictures appear in. The folder path that gets the files is the one the game is communicating with. You can copy your game over to that one (again, remove old files from the folder and THEN copy/paste in your preferred savegame).

The old savegame should work fine from whichever path the game is reading from, once the files are in place.

The trouble with OneDrive is that it is kind of set up to make a copy of the files (OneDrive + regular Documents location). When you uninstalled it, I assume it chucked the OneDrive copy over to the desktop or some such, which caused the file paths to get confused, especially if the game was somehow connected to the OneDrive path.

They're all identical. AND YOU JSUT MADE ME REALIZE I FORGOT TO CENSOR MY USERNAME The reason why i dont want it shown cuz its literally half of my email... but its too late ig


c:\users\idki5\documents\ea games\the sims 2 ultimate collection
(i kept my username because theres no point of hiding it when i already showed it anyway)