Re: 🛠️ Creating a symlink in macOS to store the Sims 4 folder on an external drive
Ah, gotcha, thanks.
Do you have a resource.cgf file in the SciFI and Medieval folders?
I don't see how it is an issue with how the game loads files on macOS. All the game is doing is looking in the Documents folder for an Electronic Arts folder, for a Sims 4 folder, and then the saves folder, Mods folder, game settings file and all the other files it needs. If it can't find them it will simply recreate the files, or folders, it can't find. It doesn't know macOS is using the symlinks. But, it's interesting that this exact same setup worked for you in Windows. So I would think it could be one of two things - 1) differences in Windows and macOS (I have no experience of the command line in Windows) or 2) the symlinks not being correctly set up but from your screenshots it all looks ok.
To answer your initial question "Do you know if the Mac OS build of The Sims 4 can load symlinks inside other symlinks?" I would assume yes it can because the OS is doing the work and the game is none the wiser. I'm going to have to test this now though. Will play around later and report back with my findings 🙂
I would personally set it up with bespoke saves and Mods folders and rename them before loading the specific save I wanted to play. If storage was the issue I'd dump the whole Electronic Arts folder on a fast external and symlink to it (the problem I had and why I created this guide all those years ago now).
