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Game Won't Work After Switching To Hard Drive

I just got a new external hard drive for my MacBook, I got it because my storage was always full from all the custom content I download for the sims 4. I deleted all my cc/mods, and decided to just u...

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Bluebellflora
5 years ago
@cbollettieri

You didn't format the external drive properly - https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/

Bluebellflora

Hero+

5 years ago

@cbollettieri

Lol, no worries. Yeah, lots of people seem to skip that bit but I don't think I can make it any clearer in the instructions 🙂 Unless you used another source for creating symlinks that wasn't sims specific?

cbollettieri

5 years ago

Yes, because I remembered using a symlink last time I used an external hard drive for sims so I just googled a regular tutorial for it. Reformatting just completely slipped my mind I guess!

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