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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 EA App. As internal storage gets smaller we're forced to use ...
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4 years ago
@Chan_Chan2597

Ok. So the drive is called GAMING HARD, not Gaming Hard:

/Volumes/GAMING HARD/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

If your drive is formatted as FAT32 you won’t be able to use CC/Mods.
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Chan_Chan2597
4 years ago

@Bluebellflora 

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.

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    Bluebellflora
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    4 years ago
    @Chan_Chan2597

    It’s all clearly explained in the instructions. It even says at the beginning to not format as FAT32 🙂 Origin doesn’t need it to be FAT32 formatted either.

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