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5 years ago

Playing Sims 4 on External HD Mac

BluebellFlora,

Thank you for being so helpful to many people. I followed your website instructions very carefully for the symlink to my external hard drive that I formatted APFS beforehand. I gave Origin access to the external hard drive for Installs and Saves. I have not tried to run The Sims 4 yet. I have some follow up questions before I do. 

1) I decided to drag the Sims 4 from Applications to my external hard drive and it created a copy. Can I click that to play the game? 
2) Can I uninstall The Sims 4 from my computer now?
3) I have a "The Sims 4 Packs" in my applications folder. Can I drag that over to the external hard drive? Do I have to create a symlink for that too? How do I do that? 
4) Basically can I play TS4 from my external without being on my main Mac at all? My computer says TS4 is taking up 17 GB of disc space so I am trying to decrease this and create more space on my mac.
5) I want to download more expansion packs in the future. Can I save them directly onto the external hard drive? 

Thank you, 

Grace

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