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Bluebellflora
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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 ...
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Bluebellflora
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2 years ago
@DrixDrizz

You don’t double click a symlink. A symlink is an instruction to a file path that, once created, is automatically run.
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DrixDrizz
2 years ago

That’s what I meant the path way was broken. It kept saying it couldn’t complete because the original item for mods can’t be found. 

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    Bluebellflora
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    2 years ago
    @DrixDrizz

    Can you copy/paste everything from Terminal here please.
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      DrixDrizz
      2 years ago

      I ended up starting over before you replied I found your yt vid. Now I can’t get the game to pass the loading screen before it says sims 4 not responding under forced quit 

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        Bluebellflora
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        2 years ago

        @DrixDrizz

        Trash the localthumbcache.package file and rename your Mods folder to something else, like Mods2 or similar. Then try to load the game.

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