Hello I had to get a new external and got it formatted to the correct format and tried the step 1 of the symlink and got this.
The recent message is the one that i got after making sure that the optimized mac storage is unchecked and the desktop and documents folder are unchecked as well and still got the message. I am not sure what else to do.
After following the steps of the optimizing mac storage and the desktop and documents folder this is what it shows for the documents folder. Do I need to ad in Local to the command.
Was able to get the symlink made but now the game wont start.
This what I got when i hit play.
I checked all my extensions and I still got this. Don't know what else to do.
how do you check all the extension that could be turned on that's effecting the game. I even tried re downloading the game and it still is giving me the same start up issue.
Should i make a new user.
@SlayGawdess420
System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disc Access and Files and Folders.
Please screenshot the settings for the Sims 4 in those two locations and post the screenshot here.
Omg 😭 I didn’t know u were going to respond so quickly so. I got frustrated because I couldn’t figure it out so erase my drive and uninstalled sims from origin so I can just start fresh. I’ll attach the photos when I get to that part again
Ok Blue I’m back lol soo I made sure I went to privacy and Security to allow full disk access for origin and sims 4. Everything seemed to save on my drive and my ea folder is still sitting in my documents. I haven’t done the move process yet because I wanted to show you how it looks first to make sure I’m doing this properly.
@SlayGawdess420
10 steps? That seems like a lot. I have no idea why you have that folder or what is in it but it doesn’t exist in my guide 🙂
Edit - oh I see, yes, that folder is in my guide if you want to store the Electronic Arts folder within another folder on the external but you don’t have to, it’s optional 🙂
@SlayGawdess420
You’re welcome! Near the bottom of my guide, before the instructions on how to reverse the symlink, are a list of the common error messages and how to fix them. There’s a link directly to Apple’s website which explains about System Settings > Security & Privacy and allowing access. It’s really helpful 🙂
Hey Blue I thought I had everything down pack when sims loaded but my cc didn’t show up so I went back to ur site again to see where I went wrong and realized it never made the ea alias with the black arrow so I redid the steps and I now it’s unable to start. Do I need to reverse the symlink and do everything all over again? Or do I need to delete the ea white file first then reverse the symlink and try again?
@Bluebellflora I ended up reversing the symlink and I wanted to know if I needed to just rename ALL of those folders in my external drive so I can redo the symlink all over again or can I just delete them?
