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5 years ago

Sims to an external hard drive from a MacBook Air please?

Hi there, Can I have help please transferring Sims 4 from a Mac Book Air to an external hard drive or cloud based storage set up please. It takes up so much space on the hard drive. Thankyou!

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Bluebellflora

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5 years ago

@sophieamybarclay

Do you want the game transferred or the user data such as saves, or both?

To transfer the game simply drag the Sims 4 app and the Sims 4 packs folder to the external then open Origin > Preferences > Installs & Saves and change the game library location to the external.

To transfer your Sims 4 folder that contains your saves/mods/tray/screenshots and all other user data to the external you need to trick the game into thinking it is still stored locally in the Documents folder - https://bluebellflora.com/2020/03/01/if-youre-running-out-of-space-to-play-the-sims-here-are-your-options-for-storing-your-data-externally/

sophieamybarcla
5 years ago
Hi there,
Thanks for that. I copied to an external drive but I can't get that drive to come up in the change location section. How do I do that? I apologize! I have no idea how this works, I'm trying to make it work for my daughter who loves it. Then once I work that out can I delete from my computer's hard drive? Then I have no idea about user data, I guess it would be ideal if it was balloon the external hard drive. But getting the game and packs off is the first step.
Thanks for your time
- Bluebellflora
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  5 years ago
  @sophieamybarclay
  
  Are you running Catalina? If so go into System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy and make sure Origin has Full Disk Access.