I disabled icloud drive a while ago. I went through the steps in the link you provided and the optimize mac storage box and desktop and documents folder boxes are already unchecked.
How should i format the hard drive so i can use CC/Mods? That was the only reason i got the hard drive is to store those. LoL! I only changed the formatting so that I can move my origin game library location to the hard drive.
Yes, so with the drive being titled GAMING HARD, are those the correct inputs for steps 1 and 2?
Step 1: mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/Gaming\ Hard/
Step 2: ln –s /Volumes/Gaming\ Hard/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/
It seems like step one is working but when i open a new game it creates a new EA folder in Documents.
I was able to figure it out. I must have been having issues with spacing. All I did was copy it directly from the instructions and use the name is the hard drive where USB is. It’s working perfectly now.
Thank you so much for your patience and expertise, I really appreciate it!
Hey! I’m having the same issue and I was wondering how did you resolve it. I named my file and tried the SYMLINK but all it does is make a new EA copy once I start the game. I bought a hard drive for all of my CC but the mods folder is in the EA folder which keeps going into a documents folder and not my actual external hard drive.
okay my file name is ALEX, i copied the exact link from the site , can you explain how I can properly do it?
mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/ALEX/
ln -s /Volumes/USB/Electronic\ ALEX ~/Documents/
and I used the format from the website not the link, sorry
Alex is the name of my external drive.
Yeah. sorry when I just copied it from the command, Instead if charging USB. I changed Arts instead. I just tried it again with the correct format and it’s still showing in my documents im not sure what is going on, I turned off the cloud sync and everything
Also I read up and you said spacing is a big thing, are the spaces in format on the website incorrect?
This and it was removed but it keeps getting put back in the documents folder.
And also please open Terminal and copy and paste the following search command then hit Enter/Return:
find / -type d -name "*Electronic Arts*" 2>/dev/null
After a little while it will return the results of the search. Copy and paste the results in a post here.
This is searching your Mac and drives for folders called Electronic Arts.
mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/ALEX/
ln -s /Volumes/ALEX/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/
I just did it again and EA showed up in the external hard drive and then when I opened it, it showed up in the documents.
Faiths-Air-2:~ faithalexander$ find / -type d -name "*Electronic Arts*" 2>/dev/null
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Library/Application Support/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Documents/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/ALEX/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Library/Application Support/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Documents/Electronic Arts
/Volumes/ALEX/Electronic Arts
Faiths-Air-2:~ faithalexander$
This is what showed up after entering the data.
Yep, this
ln -s /Volumes/ALEX/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/
looks good.
I suspect the problem is with your iCloud still being active, you can see this in the search results from Terminal you posted. When you disable iCloud Drive it archives the folder but yours isn't showing as archived. Info here https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Saves-CC-Mods-or-Library-items-disappeared/td-p/10242133
I got it figured out! Thank you for your help!
