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strawberrysimsxx
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External Hard Drive Issues

Hi, I have just bought an external hard drive for my MacBook Air to play the sims 4 and I have moved my electronic arts folder over to it and I have rerouted my origin so that the game location is th...
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strawberrysimsxx
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3 years ago

Hi thank you I have copy and pasted that into terminal and this is what has come up 

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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago
@strawberrysimsxx

You have iCloud Drive enabled. See this page for disabling it and what it means to do so https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Saves-CC-Mods-or-Library-items-disappeared/m-p/10242133#M45493

I have to be honest, creating a symlink can be complicated. If you don't fully understand what you are doing, and why, it may be best not to attempt it.

Maybe you should just stick to storing the game on the external drive? That doesn't require any symlinks (second link in post #4).

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