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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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45f2fc3ff897f49d
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9 months ago

Since ORIGIN has been replaced with the EA App for Mac's, is the process the same for creating a symlink? I'd like to move the Mods/CC only and leave the Sims4 on my MacBook.Running OS Sonoma 14.5; would like to move mods to a SanDisk SS 1TB drive. Thanks in advance

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Bluebellflora
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9 months ago
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Read the opening post on page 1 of this thread. The game installation is nothing to do with the Sims 4 user data folder therefore whether you're using Origin/EA App is irrelevant for the symlink.

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