Re: Sims game takes forever to load on external hard drive

Hello!

So I renamed the mods folder and the game still ran extremely slow. Thus, I've gotten a new SSD and have tried moving my Electronic Arts folder with no luck. I followed all of the terminal commands like last time, but instead of completely moving the Electronic Arts folder to my hard drive it just copied. I deleted the Electronic Arts folder from my documents folder on my mac to remedify this issue, but every time I launched the game it just created a new Electronic Arts folder in my documents. Is there a way to change the game library location using the new EA app? If I move my Sims game onto my SSD how would I go about moving the electronic arts folder to my SSD as well?

I reversed the symlink for the Electronic Arts folder before attempting the new one. Seeing that the EA app doesn't really have a directory to change the game library folder I just ended up installing the game on my external hard drive and the Electronic Arts folder was loaded there after launching the game on the external hard drive. Thanks so much for your help!

@JJJxiii 

You're welcome 🙂

You can change the game library location in Settings > Download:

Hello, I’m having the same issue. I followed your instructions on how to move the folder to an external drive and create a symlink but it takes forever to load. Can you explain what you mean by reverse the symlink? When I created the symlink it created the linked folder in the Documents. Mind you my Documents folder is attached to my iCloud, which was originally working okay but the files were taking up to much space in my System Data on my computer. 

Im having the same issue after installing to a ssd. I also don't know what they mean by symlink reverse so when they reply lmk