Can you play sims 4 with an external hard drive?

i was wondering can you solve this? I have moved all of my game content including origin and the application (the sims 4 ) itself to an external hard drive. that was some time ago - now when i open the game from my external hard drive none of my saves or content is there and it opens as if the game is new. I have noticed this is because it is not referencing the Electronic Arts folder that is on my external hard drive - but instead creating a new Electronic Arts folder on my macs Documents tab and using that one instead (which obviously is new and has no saves) i have tried re-installing/downloading the game to my external hard drive and ensuring the location it is installed is always my external hard drive but it still makes a new electronic arts folder on my macs hard drive? I have contacted you once with this issue and I’ve tried moving my game application into my macs applications folder but the issue is not resolved ☹️