Hi again! I have now found a solution as to how I can install the game and the mods on my hard drive after all. I have another hard drive which I can format if necessary. My question is now how I can safely move the game and the mods to the other hard drive. Btw, I would usually try to do it all on my own, but I'm scared I will lose data or my files if I make any mistakes. Therefore, I ask you first🙂
To avoid any corruption of the install I would uninstall the game then change the game library location in Origin to the new drive, then re-download the game again.
For your user data (Sims 4 folder) you need to reverse the current symlink then redo it to the new drive.
There’s always a risk to lose files when moving stuff around and creating symlinks but so long as you have backups it doesn’t matter 🙂
I see! Thank you! I need to reverse the symlink even though I never created one, as you recommended me not to?
Also, I don't know if this matters, but as of now I don't have any data/active games in the Sims 4. The mods are the only thing I'm worried about losing in the moving process 🙂
I have not created a symlink for the Sims game itself, as this update didn't require it (Based on what you wrote to me here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Moving-mods-and-Sims-4-to-external-hard-drive-MAC/m-p/11351076#M49421).
I have indeed created a symlink for the Electronic Arts folder as showed in the instructions 🙂
@annakristineb97 wrote:
I have not created a symlink for the Sims game itself, as this update didn't require it (Based on what you wrote to me here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Moving-mods-and-Sims-4-to-external-hard-drive-MAC/m-p/11351076#M49421).
There has never been a need for creating a symlink for storing the game externally. Please do not confuse the Origin workaround with creating a symlink.
@annakristineb97 wrote:I have indeed created a symlink for the Electronic Arts folder as showed in the instructions 🙂
Exactly, so you now need to reverse that symlink if you are going to use a different drive and then create a new symlink to the new external drive. If you don't do this your Mac will forever point towards your current drive that you don't want to reformat when the game loads your user data. This wiki page may help you better understand what a symlink is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link
How do you reverse the symlink?
