I cannot install/uninstall/reinstall game on Origin Mac. I just freshly installed Origin on my Mac, which has the latest macOS. Download had no issues: it tells me that the download is complete, then verifies, then asks me to pick the language.
EA Origin is less feature rich in my opinion to interface with as compare to Steam, Uplay, GOG and Other PC Games clients. In Steam, there is a clear backup and restore feature for Games as well as Apps. In Uplay and GOG, you can simply copy Games folder and then relocate them upon restore. But in Origin, you won’t come across such option for easy backup and restore of already downloaded games.
Jan 01, 2019 How to restore Origin game, without re-downloading from the begining. After re-installing new windows OS. It's still works until I created this video. I want to reinstall origin because of my star wars battlefront is not working at all, no text and cant go online in star wars battlefront. How do i reinstall origin and still keep my games and progress?! Pls help EA, i just want to plat star wars:D.
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As Mass Effect Andromeda is one of the recent major titles to release on Origin by EA, I wanted to backup and relocate my 43GB+ downloaded files of Mass Effect Andromeda to another PC, and also keep a backup on my external hard disk, but no luck, so I had to bang my head around for quite some time in searching for an absolute solution only to figure out the workaround instead, which also an official solution given by EA.
So if you want to Backup and Restore/Relocate Games on Origin (Version: 10.4.6.33873), follow following steps:
- Copy the Game folder from Origin Games folder to your desired storage location, the default path for Origin Games is C:Program Files (x86)Origin Games.
Now While Restoring/Relocating your game:
- Open Origin Client, Go to Application Settings -> Installs and Saves and Then select ‘Game library location‘ to your desired location.
- Go to the My Games Library, select Game you want to restore/relocate, and click on Install. (If you don’t see the install option means you have not removed the Game folder from original location after Copying. I advice you to rename it instead of deleting so that you have an extra backup.)
- After clicking install, as you see the installation progress starts to begin, Pause the installation and Exit the Origin client.
- Now go to the storage drive path you have selected in ‘Game library location’ and paste your copied Game folder in it and Replace(Overwrite) the existing files if prompted.
- Now after Copy of files gets complete, go ahead and Start the Origin client again and resume the download and You should see the Installation progress bar skips to the End.
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Sometimes it doesn’t accept all of the copied files and installation doesn’t exactly progresses till the end, but you save most of the bandwidth was going to waste originally. This could save several bucks for Gamers with limited download bandwidth. I still don’t understand Why Origin has to keep Backup and Restore feature of installed Games so tedious, everyone doesn’t have the Open bandwidth and download limit to install Games of size in Tons of GBs in an instant. I hope Origin brings improvements to Backup and Restore feature in future releases, meanwhile hope this guide helps you.