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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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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago
@Kaia01100

It’s an alias. It isn’t taking up any room on your Mac. It is pointing to the Electronic Arts folder on the external. Please re-read the instructions and it will help clarify 🙂
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Kaia01100
3 years ago

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)

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    Bluebellflora
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    3 years ago
    @Kaia01100

    It shouldn’t happen if the external drive is properly formatted and has full permissions in System Preferences.
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    Kaia01100
    3 years ago

    I only gave permission once when I was doing the first command. How do I give more permission to the drive?

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    Bluebellflora
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    3 years ago
    @Kaia01100

    System Preferences. But honestly, all the instructions you need are in the article you used.

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