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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- No, you need to change the game library installation location in Origin > Application Settings > Installs & Saves. Mine is installed on an external. After changing the location I would download a fresh copy of the game and packs to avoid any corruption from moving apps around:
- After you have successfully done step 1, yes.
- Changing the location in step 1 applies to the base game and Sims 4 Packs folder. No symlink is needed.
- Yes. The symlink is used to move your Sims 4 user data folder containing your saves, tray etc. files to the external. Installing the game on an external doesn't require a symlink, that's why you need to do step 1.
- Origin will do this once you have completed step 1.
Hope that helps! 🙂
@Bluebellflora Hi I'm having a similar problem, except when I look to change the game library location, my external hard drive doesn't show up. Is there any way I can fix this? I can't do school work on my computer without putting the Sims 4 somewhere else.
- @ewp2k2
My comment here on page 1 links to instructions https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Playing-Sims-4-on-External-HD-Mac/m-p/10264749#M45771
