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Bluebellflora
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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 Origin/EA App. As internal storage gets smaller we're forced ...
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lolssk's avatar
lolssk
12 months ago

So I just want to confirm if I cannot create, I think it’s called a symbolic link on a solid state drive? I followed bluebellflora directions and it works perfectly fine with my usb external hard drive but when I try to do it with my solid state drive, it will not allow me to. I get this: 

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      lolssk
      12 months ago

      Yes I did. I think the problem may be that it’s set as Exfat and not the journaled? I have the actual game on there and wanted to move my mods but before I reset my drive , will moving my mods to the ssd help the game?

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        Bluebellflora
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        12 months ago
        @lolssk

        My guide explains why you have to reformat the drive to APFS or Mac OS Extended journalled 🙂

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