You can install the game on an external drive but not your user data in the Sims 4 folder as the game will always look in Documents > Electronic Arts for the data.
You can install the game on an external drive but not your user data in the Sims 4 folder as the game will always look in Documents > Electronic Arts for the data.
Sorry, two years later.
Doesn't that mean you can't run the game if it always looks for User Data somewhere else?
New to gaming with mods and CC. I never had the storage on my Mac so I went and purchased an external drive. I managed to reinstall everything onto it but for the life of me could not figure out how to get the dam EA folder to stay on the drive instead of documents. I was able to do Symlink. This just saved me from so much frustration thank you!!!
Hi, I read your page on how to transfer my mods to a USB with the symlink, but The Sims recently updated and I went from 16gb of space to less than 4gb. I'm not sure if this is just from the game's new update taking up a ton of space, but I'm trying to move my game to the USB. I went into Origin settings > installs and saves > game library location, but I can't seem to select my USB as the location, like there's no option to select it. Would you know what I'm doing wrong? Thank you so much!!!!
