Hey I copy and pasted and input my information and I now have “ln -s /Volumes/One\ Touch/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/ “ not with the quotation marks ofc, it’s not saying this:
Sorry for three messages in a row, I figured it out and I now have the be electronic arts folder in my documents with the arrow and marked Alias, do I just leave it in the documents or do I move it to my drive?
Ok awesome!! Do I do anything with the Alias folder in my documents? And is there anyway to move that folder so I have space on my Mac?
Ohhhh ok! Another thing lol when trying to open my game I get the unable to start pop up because of my cc, I’ve had this issue before so should I just delete anything that pops up, because my drive is formatted as extended (journaled)
I only gave permission once when I was doing the first command. How do I give more permission to the drive?
Hi was wondering if anyone could help. I’ve moved my game to the hard drive but my mods and trays are not showing up in my game even after I have restarted and enabled it to . I used the symlink command thing but maybe I’ve not done it properly though I did follow instructions and all the folders were moved to the correct place. If anyone would could help me I have team viewer because at this point I’m pretty useless also none of my games are saved it’s like I just installed the sims again
Hey thanks so much for your reply I’ve figured out how to fix it I had to change my hard drive name for some reason … now my packs are not working do I also need to move them the same way I did for the ea folder with the sym link? .. thanks again
I am having a similar issue and was wondering if you had any tips. None of my saves or mods are loading into my game. Initially my game wouldn't run as it kept saying sims running in background even though it wasn't(Mac-external hard drive). I changed the electronic arts alias file name as well as the file name in the hard drive. The game runs but the saves and mods do not appear at all and its as if its a brand new game. I did double check the file paths and checked the symlinks but not sure what else to try.
Can you please explain your setup in more detail? You created a symlink to store the Electronic Arts folder on an external drive but changed the folder name?
The game will only load data (saves/tray/mods/settings etc.) from a folder called The Sims 4 within a folder called Electronic Arts within the local User Documents folder. The only way round this is to create a symlink. Any changes in folder names will mean the game recreates a new Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder in the local Documents folder.
Hey so I still have the folder within the electronic arts folder called the sims 4.
When my game initially wouldn't turn on due to error saying Sims already running in background. I changed the name of the alias file electronic arts file and the electronic arts file in my hard drive. For whatever reason this fixed the game to where it would run with no error. But now my saves will not appear. I checked the symlinks and the file paths are correct I believe. I have both the Sims 4 and all of my mods/cc on an external drive. Origin is still on my computer however.
