Help! I am trying to load my Electronic Arts folder onto a Portable SSD on my Mac (OS Ventura 13.3.1) using Terminal while following the tutorial (step 1) from Bluebell flora but nothing seems to be working.
I put in the " mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /sims4drive/ " in Terminal and clicked "enter", then a whole bunch of things came up with each file saying "no such file or directory" next to it as well as "unable to copy ACL to /sims4drive: Read-only file system". I have checked the permissions on both my Electronic Arts folder and my drive, setting them to "Read & Write" but it still does not seem to be working.
I set the format in Disk utility to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Could it be that my drive is just Read only and cannot be changed?
I have checked full Disk Access and Files and Folders for Terminal, however I have not gotten the pop-up " "Terminal" would like to access files in your Documents folder." where i would be able to click ok.
If you're running Ventura the pop up would have appeared at some point as it is built into the security of the OS:
@BluebellfloraI don't seem to have the same options...?
@Bluebellflora It also has Full Disk Access, the same as under Terminal
@Bluebellflora I didn't want to paste everything because it's quite long (basically every line is saying that a specific content from the Electronic Arts folder has no such file or directory).
But this is what comes up:
cp: /sims4drive: Read-only file system
cp: /Users/name/Documents/Electronic Arts: unable to copy extended attributes to /sims4drive: Read-only file system
cp: /sims4drive/.DS_Store: No such file or directory
cp: /sims4drive/The Sims 4: No such file or directory
cp: /Users/name/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4: unable to copy extended attributes to /sims4drive/The Sims 4: No such file or directory
…
cp: /Users/name/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4: unable to copy ACL to /sims4drive/The Sims 4: No such file or directory
cp: utimensat: /sims4drive: No such file or directory
cp: chown: /sims4drive: No such file or directory
cp: chmod: /sims4drive: No such file or directory
cp: chflags: /sims4drive: No such file or directory
cp: /Users/name/Documents/Electronic Arts: unable to copy ACL to /sims4drive: Read-only file system
mv: /bin/cp /Users/name/Documents/Electronic Arts /sims4drive/: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status
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Also, your command is wrong. You haven’t correctly copied and pasted from my guide as there is no Volumes in the file path.
@Bluebellflora Yes, the game works from the external 🙂
@Bluebellflora Oh thank you so much, I didn't look closely enough!
