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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago

🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive

This is not to be confused with installing the actual Sims 4 game on an external drive. The game installation location is determined in Origin/EA App. As internal storage gets smaller we're forced ...
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TriniJanee's avatar
TriniJanee
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4 years ago

Hello,

I went through the process of following BlueBellFlora instructions on how to create an symlink in order to store my games files on a USB since I was running out of space on my MacBook Air. All the steps went perfectly but once I opened Sims I wasn't able to load any of my saved games, I was forced to start over. Please help! 

Also, when I try to reverse the link through terminal I get this message 

'

 ~ % mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts_bkp

mv: rename /Users/janellejack/Documents/Electronic Arts to /Users/janellejack/Documents/Electronic Arts_bkp: No such file or directory

'

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      Bluebellflora
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      4 years ago
      @TriniJanee

      And are there save files in it? Something has gone awry in the command not only because your saves aren't loading but also because the message you're getting back from Terminal is telling you it doesn't exist.

      Can you post a screenshot of the alias showing the file path in the bottom of the Finder window and also the folder you moved to the external, again showing the file path? And a copy/paste of the Terminal commands you used.
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        TriniJanee
        New Novice
        4 years ago

        @Bluebellflora 

        Yes, when I click on the alias files it does brig me to the External drive and shows all my save files, mods, etc.

        Terminal command used to create symlink were:

        mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/JJ/

        ln -s /Volumes/JJ/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/

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