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Mya5848
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2 years ago

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

PLS HELP

I recently switched from origin to the EA App and thought I had to move my electronics arts folder and later found out all I needed to do was allow the EA App permission.

Although now I messed up the file. There is no Electronic arts folder on my External Drive its only the one folder in my Documents as Electronic Arts_bkp When I tried to reverse the symlink in says no such file or directory. When I go back to try to move forward with the symlink it says no such file or directory and the file exists only in my documents folder as Electronic Arts_bkp.

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  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    2 years ago
    @Mya5848

    Correct. It will say no file or directory because there is no folder called Electronic Arts. If you successfully created that backup there should be no problem, simply remove the _bkp from the folder name and the game should load it.
  • Mya5848's avatar
    Mya5848
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    The game is loading now but its loading it from my Documents and I want it to put it back on my external drive and having it run fully from there but now its saying permission denied. I went to Privacy & Security>Files and Folder and the EA app Sims and Terminal all have access and it still won't allow me to move it.

  • Mya5848's avatar
    Mya5848
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    Ok no problem.

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    Mya5848
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    Oh my bad here. Im not sure if u need to see all of them or not.

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    2 years ago
    @Mya5848

    Thanks. That all looks good. Let's check the drive in Disk Utility:

    Open Disk Utility, make sure View is set to all devices, click on the drive in the left side bar, where it says the name of your drive, and post a screenshot of the details in the main window. The Mount Point is especially important.
  • Mya5848's avatar
    Mya5848
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    Is this it?

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    2 years ago

    @Mya5848

    Yep, that's it. You see the mount point shows the drive named EXTERNAL DRIVE 1 and not EXTERNAL DRIVE? That's because your drive has not been properly ejected multiple times, the OS has appended the 1 to the name and that is the cause of your problem.

    1. Eject the drive.
    2. Navigate to /Volumes (Finder > Go > Go To Folder and enter /Volumes then hit enter) and you should see a folder called EXTERNAL DRIVE 1. Trash that folder.
    3. Plug the drive back in, check the mount point now correctly displays EXTERNAL DRIVE in Disk Utility. If so try the symlink process again.

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    Mya5848
    Seasoned Novice
    2 years ago

    Thank You so much!

    I was never going to figure that out. I went to Volumes and it showed EXTERNAL DRIVE but instead when I opened it it had A Game User Data file in it so I deleted them both plugged in the Drive again and it let me creat the symlink. Thank You too much.  I hadn't been able to play for awhile because my storage n you just helped out alottt. Thank You!

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