Sims4 to download on to a hard drive on a MacBook pro

[elizabeth211995]

@elizabeth211995 The WD Elements is the name of a hard drive. Mine is WD Easy Store so i clicked on that one as that's the one i wanted to format.

[Bluebellflora]

@elizabeth211995

Ah, so maybe the drive was just corrupted and needed reformatting, thanks for clarifying

You don't need wifi to save your game.

[UniPixie01]

@Bluebellflora my external drive isn't showing up on the options to reinstall - it only gives me the option to redirect the game onto another location on my Mac - could I drag it to the external drive and not relocate on origin?

[Bluebellflora]

@UniPixie01

Is the drive mounting properly on your Mac? What have you formatted the drive as?

You have to change the file path in Origin otherwise it won't know where to look for the game when you press play. Try following these instructions - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/Can-t-find-External-Hard-Drive-in-Origin-MAC/m-p/8686...

[UniPixie01]

@Bluebellflora Thanks for your help!! I just needed to figure out what the drive was called/where it was located.

[shest14]

I am having issues downloading my sims 4 game via origin on to my external hard drive. (This is on my MacBook Air). When I click into the Install & Saves tab, and try to change the location of my game library, my external hard drive does not come up as an option. It only gives me the option to choose the desktop and other folders on my computer. I attached two pictures to show what it looks like when I click game folder location. The second screenshot is of what options appear when I click desktop, none of which includes my hard drive.

In addition to this, I am having issues downloading my game and expansion packs on origin. When I launch the sims, it says my packs are in in the process of downloading, but origin isn't doing that. When I click expansion packs, and click download under each pack nothing happens.

If anyone could help I would graciously appreciate it. Thank you!

[Bluebellflora]

@shest14

Please follow the steps in the solution on page 1.

You need to opt out of Origin beta/technical preview to get your packs to download, it's a bug - https://answers.ea.com/t5/Origin-Client-Web-Technical/Mac-Download-Button-Not-Working-for-Sims-4-pac...

[minniedizzle]

@Bluebellflora I tried formatting to as MS-DOS but my computer said that it was unable to do that

[minniedizzle]

@Bluebellflora I got it. Thank you so much.

[simppley_S]

@Bluebellflora Hello, I tried this but it says my folder is read only.