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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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Mya5848's avatar
Mya5848
Rising Novice
9 months ago

The game is loading now but its loading it from my Documents and I want it to put it back on my external drive and having it run fully from there but now its saying permission denied. I went to Privacy & Security>Files and Folder and the EA app Sims and Terminal all have access and it still won't allow me to move it.

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Bluebellflora
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9 months ago
@Mya5848

Please post a screenshot from System Settings showing the Sims 4 permissions.
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    Mya5848
    Rising Novice
    9 months ago

    Ok no problem.

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      Bluebellflora
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      9 months ago
      @Mya5848

      You need to click the arrow next to the Sims 4 to show what is enabled.
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        Mya5848
        Rising Novice
        9 months ago

        Oh my bad here. Im not sure if u need to see all of them or not.

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