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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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carlisle154
3 years ago

So I download origin, change the SIMS download settings in origin to the hard drive to download SIMS then I can do the symlink?

When I goto make the Alias electronic arts folder alias and it creates but as an Electronic Arts document alias, like it makes an alias but it has a white rectangle instead of the blue folder.
Another question is do I have to put the origin application into the external hard drive?

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carlisle154
3 years ago

I believe I have figured it out, had to do with origin and how it was uninstalled, I will run it and lyk of any issues

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