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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?
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+@faithalex22
Nope. If you're using my guide the spaces are 100% accurate.
What is the command you are now entering?
There should be no Electronic Arts folder in your Documents folder before entering the symlink command. If there is remove it. - 4 years ago
This and it was removed but it keeps getting put back in the documents folder.
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+
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.
- 4 years ago
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.
- 4 years ago
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.
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+
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
- 4 years ago
I got it figured out! Thank you for your help!
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+@faithalex22
Great! What was it? It helps anyone reading this who may experience the same stumbling block ๐ - 4 years ago
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.
- Bluebellflora4 years agoHero+
Ah, you mean the alias with the little arrow? Yes, that is created when the symlink is successfully executed ๐
- 4 years ago
Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.
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