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5 years ago

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Can't Move My Game or Change Game Location to an External Hard Drive with Origin

Hello all, As EA Customer Service is not at all helpful, I have turned to this community to hopefully get some tech support. I currently play the Sims 4 on my MacBook Air running macOS Catalina 10.1...

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Bluebellflora
5 years ago
@twinbri

Make sure Origin has Full Disk Access in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.

lxnnanden

5 years ago

@Bluebellflora i am having the same problem, but there is nothing in my security & privacy that says "full disk access"

Bluebellflora

Hero+

5 years ago

@lxnnanden

Which OS are you running? It's only relevant to Catalina 10.15.

lxnnanden
5 years ago
@Bluebellflora i fixed it, but thank you

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