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Bluebellflora
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2 months ago

Unable to start: The Sims 4 is already running - Mac only

If you're experiencing this error message it doesn't mean your game is already running, the actual message itself is incorrect. It means The Sims 4 cannot access the Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 fold...
external drive
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Bluebellflora
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6 years ago

@MissBRZ911 

Are you running Catalina?

Do you have a Sims 4 folder in your Documents > Electronic Arts folder? If so please move the entire folder to your desktop and try to launch your game.

In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Files & Folders and check that Sims 4 has access to the Documents folder,

In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access make sure Origin has access

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MissBRZ911
6 years ago

Thank you so much!!

It worked a treat moving it to the desktop

Thank you 🙂

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    Bluebellflora
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    6 years ago
    @MissBRZ911

    Thank you SO much for confirming, it's really helpful to others and helps narrow down the fix 🙂

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