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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 EA App and there is no need to use a symlink for this. As ...
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puzzlezaddict
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2 months ago

078280​  If you created a symbolic link, you can simply delete it so the game goes back to using the internal drive instead.

If that doesn't help, what happens when you try to play?  If you get an error message, please post a screenshot.  Please also list the current format of the drive and where you want the user data to be.

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078280
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago

omg thank you so much i did make one and i will try later, if i delete the link will it create a new EA folder when started for me to transfer to my external hard drive again? 

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