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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's avatar
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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