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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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BreeBreeprinces
10 months ago

I only have the Sims 4 downloaded on the external drive. I also made sure to put all my mods into the folder as well. My issues is, my game was working fine until last week. At some point, the game started to not work. And now i'm stuck with this error telling me the game is still running. I am not sure, if I accidentally removed the ssd without ejecting it and some files may have gotten corrupted. 

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Bluebellflora
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10 months ago
@BreeBreeprincess

Do you mean the Sims 4 game installation via Origin/EA App or have you created the symlink to store the Electronic Arts/The Sims 4 folder on the external? Or both?
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    BreeBreeprinces
    10 months ago

    I created a symlink. 

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      Bluebellflora
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      10 months ago
      @BreeBreeprincess

      Moved to the symlink thread. See the opening post for further troubleshooting and how to fix the error.

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