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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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ScarlettRhett's avatar
ScarlettRhett
7 months ago

I was wondering if I could move my mods folder to an external hard drive (just by copy pasting and then deleting the contents) and then just copy it back onto my Mac before opening the game. I am very confused about the Symlink steps and am trying to avoid that if possible. 

Thanks!

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    Bluebellflora
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    7 months ago
    @ScarlettRhett

    Yes but what would be the point?

    If you have enough space on your internal disk to run the game with your Mods installed then keep the Mods folder and its contents in the Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder.

    If you don't have enough space for the Mods folder on the internal drive, where would the extra space come from when you wanted to copy the mods folder and its contents back onto the internal drive?
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      ScarlettRhett
      7 months ago

      @Bluebellflora I don't currently have enough space for it on my internal drive, so I was wondering if I could get rid of it as a temporary fix and then copy it back on my internal drive when I decide to play again (which is not any time soon).

      I basically just need to buy some time to figure out my storage issues and then put it back on the internal drive (or decide to create a Symlink and put it on an external drive permanently)

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        Bluebellflora
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        7 months ago
        @ScarlettRhett

        But if you have no internal storage available how can you copy the Mods folder over from the external drive? There won't be any space for it. You should really just create the symlink and store the whole Electronic Arts folder on a good quality fast drive.

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