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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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jenquiv's avatar
jenquiv
5 months ago

Hello! Im having a very hard time finding out what's wrong here, so I transferred my game into my SSD (Samsung T7 Shield 2T) from my M3 chip MacBook. I transferred everything into the SSD without any problems (I decided to start off fresh with no mods, CC or anything like that), however when I try to launch the game it tries to launch it but then 3 seconds later goes back into the EA app. Ive tried literally everything for the past hour and cannot figure out what's wrong for the life of me. I could really use some help here!!!

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    Bluebellflora
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    5 months ago
    @jenquiv

    What did you transfer to the external drive, the game installation via EA App, the Electronic Arts/Sims 4 folder that contains saves etc. or both?
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      jenquiv
      5 months ago

      I transferred everything, the game, the electronics folder, the saves, all of it

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