Sims 4 won't open after installing it on external Harddrive
I recently got an external harddrive because I don't really have any storage left on my macbook pro. I then tried to move sims 4 on to it, which didn't work. So I redownloaded it directly onto the harddrive. Then I still couldn't open sims because EA told me that it needed access to my harddrive which it had but didn't work so I redownloaded it as well onto my harddrive and now that works, like I can open sims but before it actually opens sims I get this error message:
Unable to start:
Cannot start because required game data is missing or damaged. Please repair or reinstall the game via Origin.
[some number]
and now I don't know what to do. I have redownloaded sims twice and I have tried to find solutions online but I can't seem to find one
Can somebody please help me
- @ju1934_lie
☹️ Is there anything else important on the drive? If so back it up somewhere, reformat the drive as APFS in Disk Utility then re-download the game. Start with the base game only so make sure you have automatic updates off in EA App. Once the base game is downloaded launch the game and see if it works.
