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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
    10 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
    10 months ago

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

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
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    10 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
    10 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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    10 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.