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lima13bean
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sims 4 on ha

Hi Yall,  I'm trying to put my Sims 4 onto an external hard drive, but I have just been running into issues left right and centre, but there are two main problems. The first problem occurs whenever ...
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@lima13bean 

Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and copy and paste the following 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. Please copy and paste the results in a post here.

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lima13bean
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1 year ago

Okay it said:  /Library/Application Support/Origin/LocalContent/The Sims 4

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    @lima13bean

    That's all it came up with? Nothing else? When it has finished the search it returns the command line prompt.
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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    Oh sorry sorry, more came up since my reply. I'll just paste everything!

    /System/Volumes/Data/Library/Application Support/Origin/LocalContent/The Sims 4

    /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/Luna/The Sims 4 Packs

    /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/Luna/The Sims 4.app

    /Volumes/Luna/The Sims 4 Packs

    /Volumes/Luna/The Sims 4.app

    (also Luna is the name of my external hard drive) 

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    Thanks. And that was all of it? That's confirming the game is installed on the external drive. But you don't have a Sims 4 folder on your Mac or the external drive. So you have no saves etc.

    Launch the game and the Electronic Arts folder should be created in the Documents folder. Once that works let me know and we can move onto the symlink.
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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    Yup, that's all of it! Also, I launched the game and the Electronic Arts folder is in Documents!!!

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    @lima13bean

    Fantastic! How much free space is on your internal storage now? Apple > About This Mac, scroll down for storage info. If there is enough space you won’t have to create the symlink
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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    It says I've got 48.59 available of 245.11 GB

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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    Perfect! Thank you so much for all your help, I honestly would have just given up without you!!!

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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    Hi Bluebellflora

    Sorry to bug you, but I've been re-downloading my CC and I've run out of storage. I was wondering if you would be able to help me with setting up a symlink now? 

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    1 year ago
    @Bluebellflora Perfect, thank you so much!!
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    lima13bean
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    1 year ago

    Hi @Bluebellflora

    So I've been having trouble with my Sims 4 recently and I was wondering if you can help. As always, you're my last stop, I've tried many things on Google before bothering you. So I have Sims 4 on an external hard drive with a symlink set up. However recently it won't let me do anything (download new mods, open the game, etc), literally nothing. So I tried to erase the external hard drive and manually erase the game; start fresh. However, it's not letting me even erase the hard drive: it says that it can't unmount because it is currently being used (error code: Couldn’t open device. : (-69877)). So I made sure everything was closed, i even tried to follow a YouTube video explaining how to get around the error but I'm having no luck. I was wondering if you encountered anything like this before and if you know how to help?

    Thanks, and sorry for bothering you 

    -Lima 

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