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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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satansfavspawn's avatar
satansfavspawn
New Novice
2 years ago

Hello!

There seems to not be an original folder labeled Electronic Arts 2! Not sure when my folder duplicated but it did. Im still not sure what the issue is, I am going to try and load in tonight and see how long I can play until it crashes. I will then try the same with mods disabled!

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    satansfavspawn
    New Novice
    2 years ago

    So the electronic arts 2 folder is a copy of the EA folder on my external hard drive. I guess I "made a copy" should I delete that? Or would that not corrupt the save.

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      Bluebellflora
      Hero+
      2 years ago
      @satansfavspawn

      It's not a copy, that little arrow indicates it is a shortcut/alias. It is merely pointing towards a folder called Electronic Arts 2. Can you post a screenshot of the original folder, clearly showing the location?

      The game won't even be reading that folder, let alone writing any data to it.

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