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Hero+

2 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+

2 years ago

@nadineabdoun I know Sims 4 .package files don't work on an exFAT drive in macOS, and that might also be true on Windows. So please format the external as NTFS if your computer runs Windows, or APFS if you happen to have a Mac. You'll of course need to move everything off the external first. The only exception of the Sims 4 program files if you want the game installed externally too. In that case, just uninstall, and reinstall after the drive is formatted.

nadineabdoun

Seasoned Traveler

2 years ago

Hi @puzzlezaddict !

Sorry for the late reply but thank you so much for the advice it finally worked !