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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

@ashface 

Thanks. This isn't listing all your Mods, it is listing all folders with Mods in the folder name which was all I needed.

Going through your list in order:

This folder is on your desktop, the game will not load any contents from this folder:

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/ash/Desktop/MovieMods

These folders are in your Downloads folder and of course will not load:

/System/Volumes/Data/Users/ash/Downloads/Lumpinou_RPO_Collection_AllMods_April2
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/ash/Downloads/Sims3 Mods
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/ash/Downloads/Mods

These folders are in the EXTERNAL 1 partition/drive, only you can figure out this conundrum:

/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL 1/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL 1/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/PhoneMods
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL 1/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/MovieMods
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL 1/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods

The game will be reading this Mods folder:

/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

These are two folders within the above Mods folder:

/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/PhoneMods
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/EXTERNAL/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/MovieMods

Ignore the rest, they are the folders listed above.

Can you post the full contents of your Mods folder by entering this command into Terminal, hitting Enter then copying/pasting the results here:

ls /Volumes/EXTERNAL/Electronic\ Arts/The\ Sims\ 4/Mods
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ashface
3 years ago
@Bluebellflora Accessories NisasWickedPerversions
Accessories Male OliveGardenCC
Bags PassionateRomance
BasementalDrugs PhoneMods
Bottoms PinkModeUI
Bottoms Male PinkPlumbob
Child Male Hair PrivatePractice
ChildSkin RedLobsterCC
ChildbirthMod Relationship & Pregnancy Mod
Dresses RemoveSimsFromConvos
ExtremeViolence Resource.cfg
FaceMasks Sets
Hair ShakeShackCC
Hair Male Shoes
HenryCavillSkin SimNationalBank
InsimniaEats Skins
InsimniaEatsIngredients Sleep&Lingerie
Jackets Swim
KariSkin TomHollandSkin
Kitchen&KocktailsLounge Tops
Lashes Tops Male
LifeTragedies UICheats
MakeUp WWAnimations
Mason&TaylorSkin WickedWhimsMod
MovieMods WrenchReplacement

The mod folder on my desktop was just for storage for the other versions of it. I don't know why there's a dual mods folder for the external popping up, that's really weird. Do you think that the External 1 could've been created when I tried to edit the Origin Installations & Saves?

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