August 2021
So every time I eject my hard drive and then put it back in, Origin makes me redownload the sims 4 (its downloaded onto the hard drive). This is extremely annoying especially considering the wifi where I live is so bad it takes nearly a whole day to redownload the game and all the packs. I just accidentally unplugged the hard drive and am currently in this situation again. What can I do to fix this?
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September 2021
August 2021
August 2021
That’s what it did at first, it repaired it- which I expected. But then it started downloading again. Not sure why, but I’m redownloading it onto the internal drive this time!
September 2021
April 2023
Hello, I also have the same issue for the first time after transferring my game on my external hard drive (using all the great info from this forum, thank you so much!!).
So just to make sure I understood correctly: the hard drive needs to be plugged in before opening Origin to avoid it redownloading the whole thing? Or will it happen everytime? I also have terrible wifi at home sadly, and it takes ages to redownload and I don't want to do this every time I want to play
Thank you!
April 2023
October
Hi! this problem has also been happening to me. I followed all the instructions and have it linked to my hard drive in application settings. I also created a symlink. Unfortunately every time I open sims it redownloads the whole application as well as all of my packs instead of pulling them from my hard drive.
October