Re: 🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive

Here are my test files in context :

Here is my code :

import os
rootdir = '/Users/user/Documents/Electronic Arts/Global Mods/Modern'

# Chunk of code to ignore folders we do not care about
dont_go_there = ['1Quarantine', 'BuildBuy', 'BuildBuyMods', 'CAS', 'CASMods', 'GameplayMods']
def has_keyword(path):
    results = []
    for keyword in dont_go_there:
        results.append(keyword in path)
    return (True in results)

# Going through folders and subfolders
for full_path, subdirs, children in os.walk(rootdir, followlinks=False):
    if not has_keyword(full_path):
        print(full_path)
        print('\t Has the following subdirs =>', subdirs)
        print('\t Has the following files =>', children)

And running this with followlinks=False will yield the following result :

$ python3 test.py
/Users/user/Documents/Electronic Arts/Global Mods/Modern
	 Has the following subdirs => ['CAS', 'CASMods', 'TestSymlinkDirectory', 'BuildBuy', 'GameplayMods', '1Quarantine', 'BuildBuyMods']
	 Has the following files => ['.DS_Store', 'TestSylinkFile.sh', 'Resource.cfg']

So it can see TestSymlinkDirectory as a child of Modern, but it doesn't go through. TestSylinkFile.sh is here no problem.

If followlinks is set to true however, it will list the directory and its children :

$ python3 test.py
/Users/user/Documents/Electronic Arts/Global Mods/Modern
	 Has the following subdirs => ['CAS', 'CASMods', 'TestSymlinkDirectory', 'BuildBuy', 'GameplayMods', '1Quarantine', 'BuildBuyMods']
	 Has the following files => ['.DS_Store', 'TestSylinkFile.sh', 'Resource.cfg']
/Users/user/Documents/Electronic Arts/Global Mods/Modern/TestSymlinkDirectory
	 Has the following subdirs => ['CAS', 'CASMods', 'BuildBuy', 'BuildBuyMods']
	 Has the following files => ['.DS_Store']