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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 EA App and there is no need to use a symlink for this. As ...
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lima13bean
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2 years 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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    2 years 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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