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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 ...
external drive
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Mya5848's avatar
Mya5848
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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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      Bluebellflora
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      9 months ago
      @Mya5848

      Thanks. That all looks good. Let's check the drive in Disk Utility:

      Open Disk Utility, make sure View is set to all devices, click on the drive in the left side bar, where it says the name of your drive, and post a screenshot of the details in the main window. The Mount Point is especially important.
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        Mya5848
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        9 months ago

        Is this it?

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