• In the Sims 3 folder, there are no .cache files to delete
• sims3pack folder is in The Sims 3 folder
• Resource.cfg file is in the Mods folder
• I tried moving my Nraas .package files to the downloads folder (read that in one of these threads), but it didn't work. Now they are back in the Packages folder

igazor wrote: ↑

December 10th, 2022, 2:29 am

Hi there, I don't think we're getting the full picture here, because what you have described couldn't possibly work even if the new drive were internal. Let's take a step back if we could.

There are two parts to the game's installation and setup that can be managed independently of each other, the program file installation and the TS3 user game folder, but they do need to work together. Your game (and its EPs and SPs) are installed on which drive? By default, that would be C:\Program Files (x86) (assuming C is your system drive and we are talking Windows here rather than a Mac), but the install can be directed to a location on a different drive if space is tight.

The user game folder must be in Documents. Or reachable from Documents. Again by default Documents would be on the C (system) drive but the entire Documents library can be redirected to a different drive by using settings in Windows. Or, alternatively, symlinks can be used to redirect a portion of Documents, let's say the EA\The Sims 3 folder, to a different drive but that's a bit fussy to set up.

But you can't just put the contents of what would be the user game folder in Documents someplace else and expect the game to know that it's meant to read and write to that location. There being no cache files spawning suggests to me that the game isn't actually using that user game folder, the one you added mods to, but another one located somewhere else such as back on the system drive. Where do your saved games actually show up?

So where have you actually got these things installed and how have you tried to manage the redirection of the user game folder? And how large, I mean small, is your system drive? External drive installs and user game folders are very problematic to game performance because of the latency caused by the game constantly reading from and writing to a slower external connection.

Finally, putting Package based content, such as mods, into Downloads will never work. The Downloads folder within the user game folder is for the Launcher to read from on startup and the Launcher only works with sims3pack content. Package files there will be ignored or could potentially confuse the Launcher since they would not be expected. Could you show us where on this site that it says otherwise?

igazor wrote: ↑

December 10th, 2022, 4:09 am

Again, how large is the C drive that now only has 27 GB of free space?

Your user game folder on D is being ignored. The game is going to look for and use a TS3 user game folder in Documents and it will create one there if it doesn't find one. Not a folder named Documents, I mean the actual Documents library that is defined by Windows for the logged in user. That's just what it is going to do. To redirect the user game folder to D, you would either need to redirect your entire Documents folder to D or else deploy a symbolic link from within C to within D that would allow the game to jump to D for the purposes of TS3. Sorry, I know this isn't being understood but perhaps someone else here can explain it more clearly.