Re: Moving mods to external hard drive

by starriski
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Re: Issues with creating a symlink on mac

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@faithalex22 

 

Yep, this

 

ln -s /Volumes/ALEX/Electronic\ Arts ~/Documents/

looks good.

 

I suspect the problem is with your iCloud still being active, you can see this in the search results from Terminal you posted. When you disable iCloud Drive it archives the folder but yours isn't showing as archived. Info here https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-Mac/READ-FIRST-Saves-CC-Mods-or-Library-items-disappeared...

 

 


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I got it figured out!  Thank you for your help!

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Great! What was it? It helps anyone reading this who may experience the same stumbling block Standard smile

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I had to keep the EA folder in my documents instead of deleting it when the copy was made to my external hard drive because I didn’t have my view as a “ list “ I was not able to view the file size and see it was smaller than the one on my external.

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Ah, you mean the alias with the little arrow? Yes, that is created when the symlink is successfully executed Standard smile


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Yes! I had it shown by the symbol and not how much space the actual file was.

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@AirJordansGirl I'm having the same problem except I have a Mac and there are like literally no videos that help me solve this
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@starriski The Mac OS also has symbolic link. What symbolic link does is put an invisible file in the source folder. When the OS (operating system) finds this invisible file it redirects to where the folder really is. 2 problems - 1 - someone deletes the source folder and breaks the link. 2 - usb drives get reassigned when certain conditions exist and that will break the link. When a computer boots it will assign drive designations to usb devices as they are discovered. If something changes the order of discovery at boot your usb device gets a different designation then it had before. Symbolic link works but is not the best solution...

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A video isn't really the best way to learn how to create a symlink. You can read these instructions which involve copying/pasting and editing to suit your setup - https://bluebellflora.com/saving-your-sims-4-folder-to-an-external-drive/

 

The assigned drives and problems unplugging and plugging in drives that @roberta591 refers to is only relevant to Windows, not macOS. There are also no invisible files or folders. After successfully creating a symlink to point to the external drive you will have a folder called Electronic Arts in the Documents folder on your Mac but it will be an alias with a little arrow in the corner showing this.


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@Bluebellflora I understand things better visually, but thank you!
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