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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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metaverseangel
4 months ago

Hi everyone,

I already have a backup of the entire Sims 4 folder, including my mods, on iCloud, but I'd like the game to access that folder directly instead of the one that's in my documents folder. Is it possible to set this up? If so, how can I do it?

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Bluebellflora
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4 months ago
@metaverseangel

No, not in iCloud, but you can to an external drive. Further instructions in the opening post on page 1.

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