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InfinityOdin
5 years ago
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A ghostly "The Sims 4" File?

Hi everyone! I've been looking around a lot for this problem which seems common but not in this form, tons of good informations and solutions but none that worked for me.  My girlfriend and I have ...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    5 years ago

    @InfinityOdin  There's no way the game would run without generating its folders somewhere.  The question is where.  I messed up one character in the previous command (sorry, I'm still trying to get better with Terminal) and gave you one that would only search the current user folder.  This will search your whole hard drive:

    find / -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null

    In case you're curious, the / means the whole hard drive, even if it's partitioned; the -type d means directory (as opposed to individual files); the name *The Sims 4* means anything with that string in the name, and the last part filters out errors that you'd get when running it, mostly permission denied for system files we're not supposed to be able to access.  Unlike searching the user folder, this one will in fact take a little while, but only in terms of a minute or two.

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago

@InfinityOdin  There's no way the game would run without generating its folders somewhere.  The question is where.  I messed up one character in the previous command (sorry, I'm still trying to get better with Terminal) and gave you one that would only search the current user folder.  This will search your whole hard drive:

find / -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null

In case you're curious, the / means the whole hard drive, even if it's partitioned; the -type d means directory (as opposed to individual files); the name *The Sims 4* means anything with that string in the name, and the last part filters out errors that you'd get when running it, mostly permission denied for system files we're not supposed to be able to access.  Unlike searching the user folder, this one will in fact take a little while, but only in terms of a minute or two.

InfinityOdin's avatar
InfinityOdin
5 years ago

B r i l l i a n t  !!! Simple and It worked, I don't know how or why but with the terminal pops it out!!

I've been struggling this problem for months! I guess the spotlight or normal computer search just wasn't digging it out.

Thank you so much! For solving it and for the command tips! ^^

Have a good day!

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    @InfinityOdin

    That's not the normal file path for the game to store the Sims 4 folder. Where did you download the game from?

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