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Re: Electronic Arts Folder and Sims 4 Deleted

@yourmom478 

Please open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following search command then hit Enter/Return:

find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null

After a little while it will return the results of the search. You'll know when it's finished searching because the command prompt will reappear. Please copy and paste the results in a post here..

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    yourmom478
    4 months ago

    Hi Bluebellflora!! I'm not sure if I'm doing this right or if there's just no search results. I've opened utilities in the application section and used command F to copy and paste the command you gave. Nothing has come up with the search, but I also haven't seen the command prompt appear/reappear and it's been quite a while. Am I doing something wrong?

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    yourmom478
    4 months ago

    Oh, no! Thank you for explaining. Here's what came up:/

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    4 months ago
    @yourmom478

    The command hasn't finished searching - "You'll know when it's finished searching because the command prompt will reappear.". Please run it again and when it has finished, copy and paste the results here, a screenshot is not very useful.
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    yourmom478
    4 months ago

    Hi! Sorry for the delay. Here is what I got!

    haleymiller@haleys-air ~ % find ~ -type d -name "*The Sims 4*" 2>/dev/null

    /Users/haleymiller/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4

    haleymiller@haleys-air ~ % 

    When navigating this way (instead of just searching for the documents folder), I was able to find the mysterious Sims 4 folder!!! Thank you!!!

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    4 months ago
    @yourmom478

    Great 🙂 Always manually navigate to it in Finder, never search as it is hidden from search results when in the correct location.

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