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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 EA App and there is no need to use a symlink for this. As ...

2 years ago

I created a symlink.

Bluebellflora

Hero+

2 years ago

@BreeBreeprincess

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

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