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girlbuddyy
3 years ago
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mods showing up on list but not in game

hello, recently i had an issue with my icloud, which caused my mods to briefly disappear - they've all returned to the folder but aren't showing up in game anymore, only the list upon start-up. i followed this tutorial with no luck, and yes i have the mods enabled in the settings. can anyone help? thanks

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    3 years ago

    @girlbuddyy 

    Thanks. That piece of CC, and any others in the same location, won't show in the game because they are not in the correct location for the game to read. All user data such as saves, Mods etc. needs to be in the Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder to properly load. In your case that would be:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    but you have the user data in two different locations that the game won't look in. First one is your iCloud Drive:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    and the second is your iCloud Archive from when you have previously disabled it:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/iCloud Drive (Archive)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    If you're running low on internal storage and have iCloud Drive enabled with the Optimise Storage option checked, it will be pushing all data to the cloud (Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs). You need to free up space and disable iCloud Drive to get your game loading the user data properly. All the info is in that link I gave you.

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  • girlbuddyy's avatar
    girlbuddyy
    3 years ago

    @Bluebellflorahi, i just attempted that and it set me back further - to clarify i don't want to disable it, my problem came from disabling it incorrectly and now i'm trying to get the cc and mods to show up in the game correctly.

    jellymoo_zinc_tee.package is one that isn't showing up.

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @girlbuddyy 

    Yes, I understand. I linked to that thread because it highlights the problems that using iCloud Drive and enabling the optimise storage option can present and how to successfully disable it. I asked for a specific file name of a Mod you're trying to use because we can do a proper search of your Mac using it and see exactly where it is:

    Open Terminal and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:

    find ~ -type f -name "*jellymoo_zinc_tee*" 2>/dev/null

    After a little while it will return the results of the search. Please copy and paste the results in a post here.

  • girlbuddyy's avatar
    girlbuddyy
    3 years ago

    @Bluebellflora 

    Last login: Thu Jan 26 21:27:36 on ttys000
    zmcgeesc@Macintosh-2 ~ % find ~ -type f -name "*jellymoo_zinc_tee*" 2>/dev/null

    /Users/zmcgeesc/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/jellymoo_zinc_tee.package
    /Users/zmcgeesc/iCloud Drive (Archive)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4/Mods/jellymoo_zinc_tee.package
    zmcgeesc@Macintosh-2 ~ %
    zmcgeesc@Macintosh-2 ~ %

    those were my results, it asked for permissions to search my contacts, reminders, documents and i believe that's it.

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @girlbuddyy 

    Thanks. That piece of CC, and any others in the same location, won't show in the game because they are not in the correct location for the game to read. All user data such as saves, Mods etc. needs to be in the Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder to properly load. In your case that would be:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    but you have the user data in two different locations that the game won't look in. First one is your iCloud Drive:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    and the second is your iCloud Archive from when you have previously disabled it:

    /Users/zmcgeesc/iCloud Drive (Archive)/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    If you're running low on internal storage and have iCloud Drive enabled with the Optimise Storage option checked, it will be pushing all data to the cloud (Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs). You need to free up space and disable iCloud Drive to get your game loading the user data properly. All the info is in that link I gave you.

  • girlbuddyy's avatar
    girlbuddyy
    3 years ago

    @Bluebellflora 

    ooh i see, i followed all the steps of the tutorial and moved the mods to the right folder, and besides a few mod updates i missed, everything is working just fine! thanks so much for your help <3

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