Deleted Electronic Arts Folder
Okay so I just recently decided to get back into the Sims 4. I play on a macbook air and I didn’t have enough storage so I decided to get an external hard drive and run the game from there but then I...
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If you deleted it and you can't recover from the trash then it's gone.
If you want to start again and store the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder on your external drive you have to create symlink to it in the Documents folder - 🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive | EA Forums - 11034490
Ok so do I pretty much follow these steps from the website of moving the electronic arts folder to the external drive even if I don’t have an electronic arts folder at all:
Step 2 - Creating the symlink for the Electronic Arts folder:
- Copy the following command into your Word/ Text document:
In-s /Volumes/USB/Electronic) Arts ~/Documents/
replacing USB with your external drive name and paying attention to the forward and back slashes and spaces. If we use the same example as before with the EXTERNAL DRIVE > Game User Data file paths and names this would be the result:
In-s /Volumes/EXTERNAL\ DRIVE/Game\ User\
Data/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/ and with the black X denoting the spaces:
InX-
sX/Volumes/EXTERNAL\XDRIVE/Game|XUser|XD: - Once you are happy with the command, open Terminal and copy and paste it from the
Word/Text document into the Terminal window so it looks like this but with your own information. If it is highlighted black just press the right arrow on your keyboard to move the cursor to the end of the line
You can't create a symlink to a folder that doesn't exist. You need to launch the game first so a new Electronic Arts folder is created in Documents. Then move that folder to the external drive, then create the symlink.
Or, you could simply create a folder called Electronic Arts on your external drive and then create the symlink to it without launching the game first. But it must be Electronic Arts with a capital E and capital A.
- Copy the following command into your Word/ Text document:
