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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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ashface
3 years ago

@BluebellfloraThis is what is showing in my installations & saves section in Origin when I clicked to choose the folder. So the External 1 is the external drive itself when it's plugged in- but I'm thoroughly confused lol

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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago
@ashface

Right, so EXTERNAL 1 is the name of your external drive, not EXTERNAL.

At this point I think it would be better to reformat the external drive, rename it something else, for example SIMSDRIVE, and start the symlink process all over again. Make sure you reverse the symlink before doing so.

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