hey! I actually direct messaged you. I was able to get my mods folder back into on my regular documents folder on my Mac. I want to start over and create the symlink but some reason even though it tells me it was successful I'm not getting that black arrow in the corner of my folder, any idea why?
sorry how do I do that? I am new to this lol
you said see your signature re. private messages, I wanted to know if I can't some one on one possibly only moving my mods, cc folder and my packs and leaving my actual sims game on my desk top?
Oh okay I understand now, but it is currently saving back in my original EA folder on my desktop. Its basically back to how it originally was aside from missing some cc and modes I accidentally deleted trying to create space. I want to keep my sims game on my desktop and move my mods and cc folder on to the drive since that takes up the most space on my desktop. Is that possible? Rather than moving my entire game altogether because that is where I get stuck.
The game doesn't save to the desktop, by default it is always to the Documents folder.
Please open Terminal and copy and paste the following search command then hit Enter/Return:
find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null
After a little while it will return the results of the search. Please copy and paste the results in a post here.
Last login: Sun Jul 16 15:01:35 on console
(nekia@Nekias-iMac-% find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/ dev/null
/Users/nekia/Desktop/SIMS BACKUP/The Sims
4
/Users/nekia/Desktop/The Sims 4
/Users/nekia/Desktop/Mods 1/The Sims 4
/Users/nekia/Desktop/Mods 1/Mods โฝ/Insimnia/The Sims 4 Greasy Goods - Littledic
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/Users/nekia/Desktop/Mods 1/Mods โฝ /Around The Sims
/Users/nekia/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/.Trash/The Sims
4
/Users/nekia/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/.Trash/The Sims 4/Mods
/CLEAR/CREATORS TO KEEP/Mods โฝ /Insimnia/The Sims 4 Greasy Goods
- Littledica
/Users/nekia/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/.Trash/The Sims 4/Mods
/CLEAR/CREATORS TO KEEP/Mods โฝ /Around The Sims
/Users/nekia/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims
4
/Users/nekia/Mirror/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4
nekia@Nekias-iMac
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sorry it wouldn't let me attach the screenshot
Thanks! C/P lists are always better than screenshots.
There is only one place your game will load saves, mods, and all your user content from in that list:
/Users/nekia/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4โจ
Everything else is being ignored.
Okay I get it! So it that where I should try to create the symlink so that I can move my mods & cc folder to my hard drive but leave my actual sims 4 game in my documents folder on my Mac?
Yes I thought it would be possible to store only my mods folder but I was originally trying to move my entire Electronic Arts folder to the hard drive and run my game from there I couldn't get the symlink to work that was the part I was stuck on. If I move my entire folder and my origin app to my hard drive would it work like that?
Okay I am going to try and wipe my hard drive and see if I can try the symlink again. I honestly just want to move my entire game Origin and all to my hard drive because sims is the only game I play on there anyway.
My hard drive currently looks like this
I gave it a rest on trying to move the folder and start redownloading a lot of cc I lost lol
Okay I will try that! Thank you, I Iโll come to this post and let you know how it goes ๐
