Deleted Electronic Arts Folder

Rose7215​ 

If you deleted it and you can't recover from the trash then it's gone. 

If you want to start again and store the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder on your external drive you have to create symlink to it in the Documents folder - 🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive | EA Forums - 11034490 

Well, typically on a macbook the electronic arts folder is found in the documents tab when you open finder. If you've deleted that then you will need to delete and reinstall both the EA app and the Sims 4 game as there will be no other way to recover that if you've fully deleted it.  

Also i'm like 90% sure if you've already installed mods they wouldn't be gone just because of that.

sealeater89​  

sealeater89 wrote:

If you've deleted that then you will need to delete and reinstall both the EA app and the Sims 4 game

This is categorically NOT true. There is absolutely no need to uninstall and reinstall EA App and The Sims 4. When you launch the game it looks in Documents for an Electronic Arts folder containing The Sims 4 folder to load your user data. If there is no folder there it simply creates one. Rose7215​ please do not waste your time uninstalling and reinstalling EA App and the game.

sealeater89 wrote:

Also i'm like 90% sure if you've already installed mods they wouldn't be gone just because of that.

Mods are installed in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods folder. If the OP trashed that folder then the Mods are gone.

Ok so do I pretty much follow these steps from the website of moving the electronic arts folder to the external drive even if I don’t have an electronic arts folder at all:

Step 2 - Creating the symlink for the Electronic Arts folder:

1. Copy the following command into your Word/ Text document:
   In-s /Volumes/USB/Electronic) Arts ~/Documents/
   replacing USB with your external drive name and paying attention to the forward and back slashes and spaces. If we use the same example as before with the EXTERNAL DRIVE > Game User Data file paths and names this would be the result:
   In-s /Volumes/EXTERNAL\ DRIVE/Game\ User\
   Data/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/ and with the black X denoting the spaces:
   InX-
   sX/Volumes/EXTERNAL\XDRIVE/Game|XUser|XD:
2. Once you are happy with the command, open Terminal and copy and paste it from the
   Word/Text document into the Terminal window so it looks like this but with your own information. If it is highlighted black just press the right arrow on your keyboard to move the cursor to the end of the line

And yeah since I installed the game to my external drive and deleted the electronic arts folder I’m assuming it won’t just show up again

Also to add on I’m wondering if it isn’t showing up becuase I decided to download it to my external drive which technically doesn’t contain a documents folder. If the solution is redownloading it to my internal drive then I might just give up

Rose7215​ 

You can't create a symlink to a folder that doesn't exist. You need to launch the game first so a new Electronic Arts folder is created in Documents. Then move that folder to the external drive, then create the symlink.

Or, you could simply create a folder called Electronic Arts on your external drive and then create the symlink to it without launching the game first. But it must be Electronic Arts with a capital E and capital A.