Re: Can't Move My Game or Change Game Location to an External Hard Drive with Origin

@twinbri 

Try this:

1. In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder 
2. In the left side click on Computer then double click on the '/' that appears next to a picture of your hard drive in the right side. You should see four folders in the right now - Applications, Library, System, Users.
3. In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volumes/[the name of your external] then hit Enter. For example, my external is called Backup and shows Backup when plugged in in Finder, so the file path is /Volumes/Backup.
4. The window will disappear and reappear again but you may not see your external. That's ok, quit Origin then reopen it. You should get a Gatekeeper message popping up asking for Origin to have permission to access files on a removable volume. Just click Ok.
5. Now repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window.

@Bluebellflora 

Unfortunately, it did not work. After following the steps and writing /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName in the directory, I still get the error message saying the external hard drive is not mounted. This is after I wrote /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName in the directory, the window reappeared, I quit Origin, and then I did not get a gatekeeper message. ☹️

Thanks for your input! 

@Bluebellflora  That worked, thanks!

If anyone is looking for some sort of answer:

On my Mac, I went into Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility selected my hard drive under External and clicked erase at the top (will erase your hard drive completely). Then I picked MS-DOS (FAT32) as the format and picked a new name for the hard drive. After, I went into Origin > Preferences  > Installs & Saves  > Change folder and manually wrote /Volumes/ExternalHardDriveName as the Directory. 

OMG ! After nothing has ever worked for me, I can now see my hard drive ^^ What should I do next ? 

I know this message comes a bit late, but thank you for your help 🙂

Edit: Now my games are being saved on / Volumes/(Name of hard drive). Can I now back up my saves, tray, mods etc... and uninstall/install my game without difficulty ?