Changing Drives

[rome_raven]

I have been looking for ways to do this every since I got a new hard-drive.  Anyone know how or could show me where I can get information regarding moving the "my dociments" folder off of C: drive and onto another drive, and still have my game recognize where it and fully function?

[ScoobyDoo]

I just had to do this a couple weeks ago, when I got my new system. I installed Sims on this new computer and then copy the old content folder (z:\my documents\ea games\the sims 2) into the new folder (d:\my documents folder\ea games\the sims 2).  Course in a few weeks I'll have to do this all over again when I get a better hard drive.

[Diala]

I don't know how well this will work, since I never tried it, but here's something you can attempt:

In the "My Documents" Properties, (right click and choose "Properties" in the My Documents folder) there should be a tab open that says "Target." Select "Move," and create or select a folder which you want to be the new My Documents.

[rome_raven]

I managed to move the "My Documents" folder but now Bodyshop will no longer open.  Do I have to move the rest of the game files over to the new drive as well?  And if so, do I just do the same right click-move thing?

[Diala]

Hm, this is where my expertise fails. My only advice is to uninstall and reinstall the game onto the new hard drive. Perhaps someone else has better advice. Like I said, I never done this before.

[Paperbladder]

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=7120.0 - Venusy posted a thread quite a bit ago about moving the main install on a portable drive, in the end it ended up being a frankenbuild of sorts.

(My) Documents is a special folder in Windows, chances are it'll remake it if you don't tell it where you moved it.  Right click on "My Documents" in the Start Menu and right click properties.  Then click the Target(or Location) tab and then "Move..." if you haven't done so already but if you already have then click "Find Target..." and point it to where you put the folder.  I don't know if TS2 will adapt to this location, but it'll fix it for the rest of Windows.

[rome_raven]

I did that for the mydocuments folder and everthing else Windows follows it so that's fine so far buy BodyShop opens and then freezes for like 20 minutes and then I just force it to close because it isn't doing anything...guess I'll just have to put everything back to how it was.

Thanks for the help anyways.

[Weaver]

Have you tried deleting Groups.cache from the EA Games/The Sims 2 folder?
I usually move My Documents to a seperate hard drive soon after a clean install of Windows.

[gjam]

Aha!  I knew I had seen instructions on how to change the location of My Documents, and I finally remembered where. http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=53400

What I wish for, and haven't seen, is a way to take the EA Games folder out of My Documents, so My Documents would only be used for stuff like, yanno, my documents.  It would make it a whole lot easier when I want to backup everything except Sims.