Moving Sims 4 to external hdd
So my lilsister had bought a hdd external drive beceause her normal drive was full and she wanted more mods, my job here for the past few hours was to simply move where the game is installed to the n...
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The game installation and where her user data such as saves, mods etc. are stored are two completely separate things.
By default Origin installs the game to ~Applications but as you've discovered, you can change this in Origin Preferences fairly easily.
The game only recognises the user data if a symlink is created linking the desired location of the folder to the alias in the default location which is Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/
