The Sims 4 folder contains your saves, tray files (your in-game library), all CC/Mods if you use them, screenshots taken in-game using C, recorded videos, your in-game graphics options, plus a few other files and folders that make your game unique to you. You want to play on more than one Mac so therefore having your Sims 4 folder on an external thumb drive is more appealing to you.Ĭurrently, and ever since it was launched, the game has only ever looked in the user’s Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder for files to load for your game.You’re running out of disk space on your internal storage and need to move some user data off your Mac.You have a small internal drive on your Mac, typically 128GB or 256GB.
This gets asked a lot on Answers HQ, how do you store your Sims 4 folder on an external drive and your game recognise it as the default location? You may want to do this for various reasons:
