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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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tommidani
8 months ago

@Bluebellflora 
Hi! So, my problem is "The Sims 4 is already running", but i've done everything you advised and nothing changed... I have iCloud drive disabled to store my document in the Cloud and Optimise Storage disabled, in the EA app i can see the game is located in my external drive, my drive dosen't have a "1" after it's name... everything worked fine with the external drive until now.

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Bluebellflora
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8 months ago
@tommidani

Check in System Settings that the game has full access to the document folder and external volumes.

Does the symlink in your Documents folder look like a white page or a normal folder with the little arrow in the corner? If a white page trash it and redo the symlink.

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