Computer and External Drive

Any ideas?????????????

I've been playing my game on an external drive. I recently had an issue with my iCloud was seen by Apple. We ended up turning it off. I go to play, plug in my drive, and nothing was loaded in the game however, all the information is still on the drive. I was able to see that I have another electronics arts folder. When I looked in there, everything was empty. I moved my mods and saves in that folder, then everything was working again. So now it only recognizes my saves and mods on the computer and not the drive how it was originally.

I have repaired the game multiple times.

I have took out the mods and placed them back

I made sure the installer location on the EA app has my external listed

I've run out of ideas. I hope this made sense. Basically, I have the game in two locations, but I only want it to recognize one.