🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive

Bluebellflora
Hero+
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.
Mya5848
Rising Novice
9 months ago
Is this it?
Bluebellflora
Hero+
9 months ago
@Mya5848

Yep, that's it. You see the mount point shows the drive named EXTERNAL DRIVE 1 and not EXTERNAL DRIVE? That's because your drive has not been properly ejected multiple times, the OS has appended the 1 to the name and that is the cause of your problem.

1. Eject the drive.
2. Navigate to /Volumes (Finder > Go > Go To Folder and enter /Volumes then hit enter) and you should see a folder called EXTERNAL DRIVE 1. Trash that folder.
3. Plug the drive back in, check the mount point now correctly displays EXTERNAL DRIVE in Disk Utility. If so try the symlink process again.
Mya5848
Rising Novice
9 months ago
Thank You so much!
I was never going to figure that out. I went to Volumes and it showed EXTERNAL DRIVE but instead when I opened it it had A Game User Data file in it so I deleted them both plugged in the Drive again and it let me creat the symlink. Thank You too much. I hadn't been able to play for awhile because my storage n you just helped out alottt. Thank You!

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