SIMS4 from MAC onto External HardDrive?

[DeafSJ]

@Bluebellflora Perfect, thanks so much!

[Victorilious]

I'm following Steps 1-3 and I've done it a couple of times but steps 4-5 is just not working

[Victorilious]

this is the message I keep getting

[Bluebellflora]

@Victorilious

Have you checked System Preference settings for Origin?

[Victorilious]

@Bluebellflora Thank you so much for responding! No, I haven't what should I do about that?

[Bluebellflora]

@Victorilious

Steps 1 and 2 here - https://bluebellflora.com/2020/11/26/external-drive-not-showing-in-origin/

[Victorilious]

@Bluebellflora Thank you so much! It all worked out!

[melonmelissa977]

I have 2018 MacBook Air with similar issue I did the ”/volume/seagate” in the directory and I’m getting the same error image and that in fact is the name of my external drive not sure what to do next I feel like I’ve done everything and feeling hopeless

[melonmelissa977]

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@Bluebellflora wrote:

@Majrolein 

Ok, we can work round that:

1. In Origin > Installs & Saves > Game Library Location click on Change Folder 
2. In the left side click on Computer then double click on the '/' that appears next to a picture of your hard drive in the right side. You should see four folders in the right now - Applications, Library, System, Users.
3. In the field at the bottom, where it says Directory, type in /Volumes/[the name of your external] then hit Enter. For example, my external is called Backup and shows Backup when plugged in in Finder, so the file path is /Volumes/Backup.
4. The window will disappear and reappear again but you may not see your external. That's ok, quit Origin then reopen it. You should get a Gatekeeper message popping up asking for Origin to have permission to access files on a removable volume. Just click Ok.
5. The external should now be showing. If not, repeat steps 1 to 3 and you should see the contents of your external in the window.

Let me know how you get on

(Thanks to @MaxisJoe for these instructions in a thread in the Origin forum)

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I have 2018 MacBook Air with similar issue I did the ”/volume/seagate” in the directory and I’m getting the same error image and that in fact is the name of my external drive not sure what to do next I feel like I’ve done everything and feeling hopeless

[Bluebellflora]

@melonmelissa977

From your screenshot it looks like there is a problem with the external drive as Time Machine is throwing an error too.