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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+

3 years ago

@z7zax3jmeh8r

Thanks. Is your game successfully launching from the external? The game library location in Origin is showing /Volumes/sims4drive? I’m asking these two specific questions to make sure the Mac is properly accessing the external and successfully launching the game. Sometimes people move/install the game to the external but didn’t correctly change the Origin game location so it’s still launching from the Applications folder.