Not able to Access previous saves on mac
Hello! This is my first post to forums but I am totally at a loss. I’ve had my mac for around 5 years and the storage got pretty full, so I recently got a portable hard dive and moved my games to it ...
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Location: Seagate Portable / The Sims 4
@starryfawn
That's why they aren't loading, because they are on an external drive. The game will only look in Documents > Electronic Arts for a Sims 4 folder containing saves etc. If it cannot find one it will recreate the Sims 4 folder (unless you have created a symlink to store the folder on the external and create an alias in the local Electronic Arts folder?).
Can you move the saves into the local Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder > saves folder, where the new save should be that you created?
That's why they aren't loading, because they are on an external drive. The game will only look in Documents > Electronic Arts for a Sims 4 folder containing saves etc. If it cannot find one it will recreate the Sims 4 folder (unless you have created a symlink to store the folder on the external and create an alias in the local Electronic Arts folder?).
Can you move the saves into the local Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder > saves folder, where the new save should be that you created?
I will try that! I have not had any issues previously, and have been using the seagate for a few months now to save space! I thought I had everything transferred over properly, and even have origin set to know that games are installed and on the drive.
- @starryfawn
Origin installing the game on the external is separate from where your Sims 4 user data folder is that stores your saves/mods/tray/screenshots etc. This explains about the symlink option - https://bluebellflora.com/2020/03/01/if-youre-running-out-of-space-to-play-the-sims-here-are-your-options-for-storing-your-data-externally/
