SimSweep v2.5.0 - The "Where Are My Files" Update

This one's for everyone who doesn't keep their Sims 4 folder in the default location.

I got reports from users whose Mods folders live on separate drives (using Windows junctions or symlinks to move them off their C: drive). SimSweep was detecting the link instead of following it to the real folder, which caused all kinds of downstream issues, including the false broken CC flags some of you saw in 2.4.0.

So I went through the entire folder detection system and fixed it properly.

What changed

Symlinks and junctions now resolve correctly. If your Sims 4 folder is on D:, E:, an external drive, wherever, SimSweep will follow the link to the actual location instead of getting confused by the shortcut.

Manual folder selection actually works now. Before this update, if you browsed to a Sims 4 folder that wasn't inside the expected Documents/Electronic Arts/ path, it would silently reject it. Now it accepts any folder that contains both a Mods and Tray subfolder, regardless of where it lives on your system.

Your custom folder path sticks. If you manually set a folder path in Settings, that choice now persists across restarts. Previously it forgot your selection every time you closed the app and auto-detect would kick back in, which was especially annoying for anyone who had to manually set it in the first place.

Bug reports actually send now. Turns out the Discord webhook URL wasn't being included in the release builds. So when you clicked "Report Bug" in an installed version, it was failing silently. Every single time. For every user. That's fixed. (And yes, the irony of a bug report button that was itself bugged is not lost on me.)

Small stuff

There's a new "Reset to auto-detect" link in Settings if you ever want to undo a manual folder selection. And the folder picker dialog now actually tells you what it's looking for instead of being vague about it.

Why this matters

Folder detection sounds boring but it's the foundation everything else runs on. If SimSweep can't find your files correctly, every scan, every analysis, every feature downstream gives you bad data. This update makes the tool reliable for people with non-standard setups, which based on the reports I've been getting is a lot more of you than I expected.

Update should hit automatically. Let me know if your setup is still giving you trouble.