Download Origin on External Hard Drive
Hi y'all, I have read multiple forums and tried multiple pathways and nothing seems to be working, though it could easily be user error. I am attempting to play the Sims 4 from my external hard driv...
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@puzzlezaddict Thank you for your swift response. All I really want is to be able to operate the game and have the saves, mods, etc.saved on the external hard drive, but that hasn't been possible yet which is why I also tried to reinstall Origin on the external. However I am able to do that works for me. So far I have manually transferred the folder Electronic Arts which contains the folder The Sims 4 and that has a lot of subfolders in it. I apologize, I don't know the language well enough to tell you exactly what it is called. I also moved the game within Origin to this external hard drive Electronic Arts folder, but when I open the game it starts brand new again and creates a new Electronic Arts folder in the C drive Documents with the new save in there. I hope that made sense/clarified some things. I was unable to recover the error code, but I'll post again if it comes up. Thank you for your help!
@makerunurself This game is hard coded to put this games user data on the system drive (C) as are most other games. There is a way to have the operating system look for this data in another place. This is an advanced command called symbolic link. There are pros and cons to using symbolic link. I don't advise using this unless you really know what you are doing. As I'm guessing you want to move this data to an external storage device (probably usb) you need to know that a under certain conditions a usb can (and sometimes does) change the device designation and that places the data to another location where it won't be in the expected location. If you are contemplating this now I recommend you get a larger system device NOW before the system gets more complicated then it is because my guess is things will not get better. Windows is known to be sloppy and leave data that will probably never get user again. Getting a 1Tb device means you probably won't have to worry about free space. I just bought a WD blue 1Tb 7200rpm drive for $43 usd
bro best buy has a 8 tb wd game drive for 200
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