Ultimate Collection Path Fix

OK, so anyone using UC knows about the pain the different file path it uses to the CD version of the game causes. The CD version uses '~\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2' whereas UC uses '~\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection' (the coding genius that stuck an extended character into the path name needs a serious talking to!)

What not a lot of people know is that it's possible in Windows (for a very long time) to create what is known as a 'symbolic link' which gives us the ability to give a single directory two different names/paths. This is NOT a copy, just two ways to refer to the same folder on the disk.

So we can use a symbolic link to make older utilities believe our UC game is a CD game

From the Start menu / search area, locate 'Command Prompt', right-click on it and select 'Run as administrator'

Change directory to '~\Documents\EA Games' (where ~ will be different for everyone, for me it's 'D:\Users\William')

Enter the following
mklink /D "The Sims 2" "The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection"
the easiest way to get the last bit in double quotes is to type "The" and then press the tab key to get command prompt to auto-complete it.

You can now forget about what path a utility is looking for as '~\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads' and '~Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads' both refer to the same folder.

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