Hey! Iโm having the same issue and I was wondering how did you resolve it. I named my file and tried the SYMLINK but all it does is make a new EA copy once I start the game. I bought a hard drive for all of my CC but the mods folder is in the EA folder which keeps going into a documents folder and not my actual external hard drive.
okay my file name is ALEX, i copied the exact link from the site , can you explain how I can properly do it?
mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/ALEX/
ln -s /Volumes/USB/Electronic\ ALEX ~/Documents/
and I used the format from the website not the link, sorry
Alex is the name of my external drive.
Yeah. sorry when I just copied it from the command, Instead if charging USB. I changed Arts instead. I just tried it again with the correct format and itโs still showing in my documents im not sure what is going on, I turned off the cloud sync and everything
Also I read up and you said spacing is a big thing, are the spaces in format on the website incorrect?
This and it was removed but it keeps getting put back in the documents folder.
And also please open Terminal and copy and paste the following search command then hit Enter/Return:
find / -type d -name "*Electronic Arts*" 2>/dev/null
After a little while it will return the results of the search. Copy and paste the results in a post here.
This is searching your Mac and drives for folders called Electronic Arts.
mv ~/Documents/Electronic\ Arts /Volumes/ALEX/
ln -s /Volumes/ALEX/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/
I just did it again and EA showed up in the external hard drive and then when I opened it, it showed up in the documents.
Faiths-Air-2:~ faithalexander$ find / -type d -name "*Electronic Arts*" 2>/dev/null
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Library/Application Support/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Users/faithalexander/Documents/Electronic Arts
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/ALEX/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Library/Application Support/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Documents/Electronic Arts
/Users/faithalexander/Documents/Electronic Arts
/Volumes/ALEX/Electronic Arts
Faiths-Air-2:~ faithalexander$
This is what showed up after entering the data.
Yep, this
ln -s /Volumes/ALEX/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/
looks good.
I suspect the problem is with your iCloud still being active, you can see this in the search results from Terminal you posted. When you disable iCloud Drive it archives the folder but yours isn't showing as archived. Info here https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Saves-CC-Mods-or-Library-items-disappeared/td-p/10242133
I got it figured out! Thank you for your help!
I had to keep the EA folder in my documents instead of deleting it when the copy was made to my external hard drive because I didnโt have my view as a โ list โ I was not able to view the file size and see it was smaller than the one on my external.
Ah, you mean the alias with the little arrow? Yes, that is created when the symlink is successfully executed ๐
Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.
I am really struggling and driving myself absolutely crazy. Im in hospital so can't play the sims on my PC like I normally do so using my MacBook Pro. I need to move the EA file from documents to my external. I have done the symlink thing and its not working I've tried for the past 2 days and just not working. Any advice or 1:1 support. Thanks
Bizarre. Do another terminal search, this time for the Mods folder:
Open Terminal and copy and paste the following command then hit Enter/Return:
find / -type d -name "*Mods*" 2>/dev/null
Copy and paste the results in a post here.
That you have no idea what the EXTERNAL 1 drive is indicates that something is not quite right with the file system on your Mac, maybe there is some kind of corruption which is resulting in these issues?
