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Hero+

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 ...

Hero+

4 years ago

@annakristineb97

To avoid any corruption of the install I would uninstall the game then change the game library location in Origin to the new drive, then re-download the game again.

For your user data (Sims 4 folder) you need to reverse the current symlink then redo it to the new drive.

There’s always a risk to lose files when moving stuff around and creating symlinks but so long as you have backups it doesn’t matter 🙂