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Anonymous
9 years ago
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how can I transfer sims 4 from my macbook to an external hard drive?

I'm running low on storage in my macbook air and I have already moved all my music and pictures off of it and onto a hard drive. It still says start up disk is full. Is there a way that I can transfe...
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    Bluebellflora
    8 years ago

    @SamaraAmjad

    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.

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1nternetgrl
2 years ago

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!!!!

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    1nternetgrl
    2 years ago
    @Bluebellflora I've followed the instructions and everything worked until I relaunched Origin to check if it sent me the popup thingie, and it didn't😭 I changed the USB permissions to everyone can read and write and I also went into system preferences to give Origin full access of my thing, restarted my laptop and tried again and it still didn't work ☹️( I'm so sorry to hassle you with this but please help me😭😭😭
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      Bluebellflora
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      2 years ago
      @1nternetgrl

      What is the "popup thingie" and "my thing"? Please be really clear when providing info for technical issues 🙂

      Can you post a screenshot showing your Origin games library location, a screenshot of the Full Disk Access in Origin, and a screenshot of the contents of your external drive showing the game installed there.
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        1nternetgrl
        2 years ago

        @Bluebellflora


        Sorry, I meant the popup that asks for permission to access the files and "my thingie" as in my full disk access. I'll attach the screenshots below!

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