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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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lima13bean
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10 months ago
@Bluebellflora Hey so I did did everything it says to on the guide under "Unable to start... The Sims 4 is already running" but I am still getting the error. I checked and double-checked that everything has permission and is mounted properly but I've been having no luck. Is there anything else I could do maybe?
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      lima13bean
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      10 months ago
      @Bluebellflora Yup, I disabled it when I created the symlink and haven't turned it back on since.
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        Bluebellflora
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        10 months ago
        @lima13bean

        Ok. Check your external drive name in Disk Utility is exactly the same as the one you used in the symlink. Maybe trashing the symlink and redoing it will work? If drives aren't properly ejected the OS can sometimes append a number after the drive name. This would result in the game not successfully being able to access the Sims 4 folder (it's all about permissions 🙂 )

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