

These are your saves, your downloads, and your personal settings. User Files: Both Physical/Origin AND Steam will put your user files in your Documents directory.But you should have one or the other, NOT BOTH*.
#The sims 3 store content uninstalling itself using origin install
When you install the game from Origin or physical, it goes in a C drive. Install Files: When you install the game from Steam, it goes in the steam library on your external HDD.The User Files are your personal saves, settings, and downloads. The Install Files are the game itself and all your EPs and SPs. You will have "Install" files in one place, and "User" files in another. The Sims 3 install creates files in two places.To resolve this problem, I recommend totally uninstalling the physical/origin versions (if you want to use Steam version). You must totally eliminate one or the other* - you should not have one on C drive and one on the external HDD. This will confuse the game and mean yes, you have troubles. Above, you sound like you have both physical/origin and Steam Sims 3 running on the same computer. You should have only one version of Sims 3 installed.but there's some things you need to understand before you can hope to solve your problem: I'm having some trouble understanding what you're trying to say.
