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devgriff98
3 years ago

Issues with installing Sims 4 onto external hardrive

I have tried installing origin and sims 4 onto an external hard drive to save space on my mac.  I have followed the forums and advice on how to install this however it does not seem to work. Initial...
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devgriff98
3 years ago

@BluebellfloraWhen following the steps to move the Electronic Arts folder, i can see the folder on my external drive, but it still appears in my documents folder on my Mac. 

For reference, my external drive is named Drive and I entered the following command into Terminal: 

mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/Drive/

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Bluebellflora
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3 years ago
@devgriff98

Can you please post in that thread so all info is in one place. That thread is set up as the master symlink thread. I no longer reply helping people with the symlink process because if it is correctly followed it works 100% of the time. There are also explanations for the various common problems people encounter through user error in the process.

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