Running Sims 3 off of External Hard-Drive

[moosebologna]

So I'm running out of space for my Sims 3 saves and bought an external hard drive, I'm not tech savvy at all and want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. I moved the Sims3 files to the external drive both from my PC files and through Steam but when I run the game it still is saving to my main C-Drive instead of the external drive. Do I have to manually move my saves each time, do I have to delete the game off of my main computer, or am I just missing something? Any tips and advice would be appreciated, thank you so much!

[Durango - aka Ghiby]

I'm struggling with the same problems, if not similar, using a solid-state hard drive on a laptop that's faster, at the expense of being much smaller, thus lack of space is or becomes an issue fast

in my case, I've moved all the old saves to an external hard drive used only for storage purposes, and I keep moving new saved files, to the external drive, to have enough room on my main drive...

ideally for optimal performance of your hard drive and of the computer itself would be to keep at least 10% free space on the hard drive, any hard drive, regardless if it's an internal one, the main one with the OS (Operating System) or an external hard drive, or any partition created and in use on a hard drive

I know that can be a frustrating issue, especially when trying to manage a relatively small solid-state hard drive

coming back to your initial question, I personally didn't tried as of yet to install and run Sims 3 off an external hard drive, but keep us posted if you try it and it works