Origin Mac creating New Electronic Arts Folder
Hello, I have attempted to move my game from my documents folder to an external hard drive. I followed these instructions:
- In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder
- In the left side click on Computer then double click on the '/' that appears next to a picture of your hard drive in the right side. You should see four folders in the right now - Applications, Library, System, Users.
- In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volumes/[the name of your external] then hit Enter. For example, my external is called Backup and shows Backup when plugged in in Finder, so the file path is /Volumes/Backup.
- The window will disappear and reappear again but you may not see your external. That's ok, quit Origin then reopen it. You should get a Gatekeeper message popping up asking for Origin to have permission to access files on a removable volume. Just click Ok.
- Now repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window.
However, when I open the game, it starts a fresh game, no saves or mods in my documents folder... not my external hard drive. (I backed up my game to a different location so not a huge sweat). I have a rather large mod folder and lots of saves, I want to move it to free up space on my computer. Any help is appreciated
@sydthesquid26 How is your USB formatted? You can find out by opening Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility), shoosing the USB in the left panel, and clicking the Info icon.
If the USB is FAT32 (exFAT or MS-DOS (FAT)), that's why the mods don't work. For reasons we don't quite understand, Sims 4 .package files read as corrupted when on a FAT32 external drive or USB. Interestingly, Sims 3 .package files work fine, so it's not that the format is unsupported overall.
You can reformat the USB, although you'll need to erase it to do so. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) worked fine for me when I tested: the mods and custom content loaded and were usable in-game.
