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olivialovedog
3 months ago
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CC & mods not working with EA app

Please help!! I haven't played Sims4 in a while and normally go through Origin but was redirected to the EA app. After finally getting the EA app to work properly I downloaded a heap of custom conte...
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    Bluebellflora
    3 months ago

    @olivialovedog 

    Thanks!

    You have a Mods folder in OneDrive in your school account. The game will not load any data from this location.

    The only location the game will load data from is the Sims 4 folder here. Your CC and Mods need to be in this Mods folder:

    /Users/oliviarobinson/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
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olivialovedog
3 months ago

Hi there, I changed the name of my school to (schoolname) to keep that private but everything else is as it is. 

find ~ -type d -name "*Mods*" 2>/dev/null

/Users/oliviarobinson/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-(schoolname)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

find ~ -type d -name "*Mods*" 2>/dev/null/Users/oliviarobinson/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OneDriveSyncClientSuite/OneDrive - (schoolname).noindex/OneDrive - (schoolname) /Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

/Users/oliviarobinson/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

oliviarobinson@Mac ~ %

oliviarobinson@Mac ~ % find ~ -type d -name "*Mods*" 2>/dev/null

/Users/oliviarobinson/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-(schoolname)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

/Users/oliviarobinson/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.OneDriveSyncClientSuite/OneDrive - (schoolname).noindex/OneDrive - (schoolname)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

/Users/oliviarobinson/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods

oliviarobinson@Mac ~ % find ~ -type d -name "*Mods*" 2>/dev/null

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Bluebellflora
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3 months ago

@olivialovedog 

Thanks!

You have a Mods folder in OneDrive in your school account. The game will not load any data from this location.

The only location the game will load data from is the Sims 4 folder here. Your CC and Mods need to be in this Mods folder:

/Users/oliviarobinson/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods
  • olivialovedog's avatar
    olivialovedog
    3 months ago

    Thank you so much! I went through and turned off iCloud documents and desktop and that did the trick!

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