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Bri4162's avatar
6 years ago

Can you save expansion packs on an external hard drive

I have a MacBook Air and I want to buy expansion and game packs but I don't have enough space on my computer so would I be able to buy an external hard drive and just save the expansion and game packs on to it? If so how would I  save them onto the external hard drive 

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  • @Bri4162

    No but you can move your entire installed game to an external. If you are running Catalina make sure to allow access for Origin to the external drive when prompted during these steps:

    - Drag the game from your Applications folder to the external
    - Open Origin then go to Preferences > Installs & Saves
    - Change the location of the game library location to your external
  • theaherskind's avatar
    theaherskind
    6 years ago

    No problem with the two first things. But I cant find the external drive when I try to change the path.

    The external drive is in Finder.

    What to do? 

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @theaherskind 

    Try this:

    1. In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder 
    2. In the left side click on Computer then double click on the '/' that appears next to a picture of your hard drive in the right side. You should see four folders in the right now - Applications, Library, System, Users.
    3. In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volume/[the name of your external] then hit Enter. For example, my external is called Backup and shows Backup when plugged in in Finder, so the file path is /Volumes/Backup.
    4. The window will disappear and reappear again but you may not see your external. That's ok, quit Origin then reopen it. You should get a Gatekeeper message popping up asking for Origin to have permission to access files on a removable volume. Just click Ok.
    5. Now repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window.