How to Backup Your Sims 4 Save File!

[Music] hey guys my name is angelia and welcome back to my channel and welcome to a new tutorial so i recently got asked by a friend of mine hi noah um how you go about moving your save file so you don't lose any of your saves in the sims 4. so as far as i'm aware there's no other way to really do it like if you're upgrading your operating system or switching from one computer to the other chances are it's probably going to get wiped um now i can't speak for every situation when you upgrade your operating system but with my computer specifically i went from windows 7 to windows 10 and windows 7 would not upgrade normally so basically i had to wipe my entire computer and then reinstall windows with the fresh start um so as far as i'm aware with that whole situation you can't really save it unless you put it on an external drive like i'm going to show you how i back up my saves so first thing you want to do is you need to find your sims 4 folder now my computer is going to look a little bit different because i do have my sims installed on a different hard drive but normally it's going to look like this you're going to go to this pc documents electronic arts and then the sims 4 is the folder that you want okay it's this entire folder that you're going to want to save at least that's what i do so i'm going to open up my version of it so i have to go into my d drive and then go into electronic arts and the sims 4. so see here's all of my stuff including all my error codes and all that fun stuff all of my mods which you don't want to see there's too many of them um and your save file is right here so if you're ever aware that you're going to lose your save file you won't so what i do is i just take this entire thing and i either click copy or i drag it into my external drive so this is my external drive i just plugged it in if we go back here you can see it right here so i'm in my d drive with electronic arts and i would just take this and drag this over here now it's going to try to do this it's probably going to screw up my computer because it's a it's a very large file and that's something i tend to do and just leave it because my file is huge with all my mods and everything but it's as simple as that so you get it all in here you're good to go when you you know you have a fresh computer you have a new os or what have you you again as far as i know you have to install the sims again via origin or steam or wherever you have the sims downloaded from so then say you download everything blah blah blah you're going to go back into this file path because the game is automatically going to generate these folders for you you're gonna go over here so if i was here and i see electronic arts i'm gonna double click on it i'm going to click this and delete this entire folder and then i'm going to go into my backup my external drive that i plugged in that i've already backed everything up to that has all my saves and all that fun stuff and i'm going to drag it over into here that way it completely replaces the generated one by ea and replaces it with your save file so you still have all of your mods you still have all of your saves your gallery items everything like that it's as simple as that it sounds a lot more complicated than it is but it's actually very easy to do um but yeah so i hope this helps if anyone has any questions you know where to find me just ask i will be more than happy to help but thank you guys so much for watching i hope you have a magical day and i will see you guys next time bye you

Channel: Angelia

Views: 18,529

Keywords: the sims, the sims 4, sims 4, ts4, sims, sims 4 tutorial, the sims 4 tutorial, backup sims 4, sims 4 backup, sims 4 save file

Id: WNV--Ji8_Bg

Length: 3min 55sec (235 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 09 2022