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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

I got it figured out!  Thank you for your help!

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Bluebellflora
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4 years ago
@faithalex22

Great! What was it? It helps anyone reading this who may experience the same stumbling block 🙂
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    faithalex22
    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 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.

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    Bluebellflora
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    4 years ago

    @faithalex22 

    Ah, you mean the alias with the little arrow? Yes, that is created when the symlink is successfully executed 🙂

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    faithalex22
    4 years ago

    Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.

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