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 itโs 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!
I had to keep the EA folder in my documents instead of deleting it when the copy was made to my external hard drive because I didnโt have my view as a โ list โ I was not able to view the file size and see it was smaller than the one on my external.
Ah, you mean the alias with the little arrow? Yes, that is created when the symlink is successfully executed ๐
Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.
It has been days and I still can't figure this out for the life of me. I have tried following steps from Bluebellaflora's article "Running your Sims 4 folder from an external drive" which seems to work for a lot of people but I am having some issues throughout the process. My first issue is when I try to type in the code into the terminal the Electronic Arts folder just disappears from my computers documents folder and goes into my hard drive but not with all the information that a Sims folder typically have. Also not to mention the Electronic Arts folder isn't even in my documents section to begin with it comes and goes so thankfully i have a copy of it on my desktop just in case so i dont lose any data from my games. I will just stop there before I go into my other issues I want to fix this one first. I am so stressed and really need help figuring this out! Please someone help lol
so i seemed to successfully move my folder to the drive but when i open up the game there is nothing of mine. none of my data transferred.
sorry if that wasn't clear enough. all my mods, saves, etc. is all in my solid state drive but the game itself when i open it up through origin looks like this.
