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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 and there is no need to use a symlink for this. As ...
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faithalex22's avatar
faithalex22
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.

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faithalex22
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.

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