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Try this:
- In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder
- 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.
- In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volumes/[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.
- 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.
- Now repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window.
Unfortunately, it did not work. After following the steps and writing /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName in the directory, I still get the error message saying the external hard drive is not mounted. This is after I wrote /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName in the directory, the window reappeared, I quit Origin, and then I did not get a gatekeeper message. ☹️
Thanks for your input!
- Bluebellflora5 years agoHero+@twinbri
Hmm, not sure what the issue is. You could try reformatting the drive again? Name it differently though.- 5 years ago
@Bluebellflora That worked, thanks!
If anyone is looking for some sort of answer:
On my Mac, I went into Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility selected my hard drive under External and clicked erase at the top (will erase your hard drive completely). Then I picked MS-DOS (FAT32) as the format and picked a new name for the hard drive. After, I went into Origin > Preferences > Installs & Saves > Change folder and manually wrote /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName as the Directory.
- Bluebellflora5 years agoHero+