Inside your install path it will create a c/users/username/documents like a Windows directory, that is the documents folder that it saves you local saves too. So you can navigate there on her old Windows machine if she has one and copy her save files from there and dump them in the same location and it should make them available. (The save file location is what I was worried didn’t have read/write permissions). But it’s just a guess from the fact that it was saying it can’t save, which if it didn’t have read permissions, if maybe couldn’t create/read the default directories during first time setup or w.e
nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
I installed to
/home/user_name/Games/the-sims-4/drive_c/users/windows_user/Games/The Sims 4/Game/Bin/TS4_x64.exe
and it is saving, it is launching. I will let you know how it is doing once my wife has played a bit. Thank you very much for helping me with this.LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Glad to hear it, anytime.
nocturne@slrpnk.net 6 days ago
Text from my wife just now:
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Haha, understandable. Frustrating I’m sure for her. At least we tried I guess.