Moving mods and Sims 4 to external hard drive MAC

[Bluebellflora]

@Kaia01100

If the alias is in the Documents folder the symlink has worked.

[Kaia01100]

Ok awesome!! Do I do anything with the Alias folder in my documents? And is there anyway to move that folder so I have space on my Mac?

[Bluebellflora]

@Kaia01100

It’s an alias. It isn’t taking up any room on your Mac. It is pointing to the Electronic Arts folder on the external. Please re-read the instructions and it will help clarify

[Kaia01100]

Ohhhh ok! Another thing lol when trying to open my game I get the unable to start pop up because of my cc, I’ve had this issue before so should I just delete anything that pops up, because my drive is formatted as extended (journaled)

[Bluebellflora]

@Kaia01100

It shouldn’t happen if the external drive is properly formatted and has full permissions in System Preferences.

[Kaia01100]

I only gave permission once when I was doing the first command. How do I give more permission to the drive?

[Bluebellflora]

@Kaia01100

System Preferences. But honestly, all the instructions you need are in the article you used.

[Chococookie2007]

 I don't have enough space left in my iCloud family storage 

[PipMenace]

Do you have to back up all your Sims files to iCloud? I use Dropbox instead, but that gives me the option to have some files/folders just locally. I’d check what settings options iCloud has.

Actually, I usually pause file syncing entirely before opening Sims, as it seems to improve the lag.

[Bluebellflora]

@Chococookie2007

You could use an external drive and create a symlink to store the Sims 4 folder on it https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/