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...
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@thelordsgrace
It sounds and looks like everything is where it should be. I don't know of any other reason it could be popping up with that error. This person posted why it was happening for them https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/#comment-67624 maybe that helps although you are moving the EA folder like I did.
Can you screenshot the permissions in System Preferences > Files & Folders for Origin and the game?
It sounds and looks like everything is where it should be. I don't know of any other reason it could be popping up with that error. This person posted why it was happening for them https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/#comment-67624 maybe that helps although you are moving the EA folder like I did.
Can you screenshot the permissions in System Preferences > Files & Folders for Origin and the game?
Yeah. I also do not understand. I do not have any game user data folders and I never did that command in terminal. I'm so confused. I also have a Macbook air from 2014, in macOSCatalina Version 10.15.3.
- @thelordsgrace
Yep, that all looks good. Have you ejected the drive, restarted your Mac, plugged it back in and tried again?
10.15.7 is the latest version of Catalina. Upgrade in System Preferences and see if that helps. I'm not sure it will but not sure what else to suggest ☹️
