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 didn’t have my view as a “ list “ 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 🙂
Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.
