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Apple external storage tutorial

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I am asking because I do not know, and I cant wrap my head around it.

Asking for when the M4 Studio gets released.

If I wanted to get a nice M4 Studio and save money on SSD storage, how do I use external storage media so the experience is basically transparent? Once I set it up, I can forget about it.

I add programs, save pictures, downloads, etc. I don't have to keep up with what drive is internal and which drive is external?

I want it to be reasonably fast, lots of space and the experience to be transparent (after initial set up)
 
you plug it in and use it, choose if you want to back up to it or not. what do you mean by transparent? its a second drive, it will show up as an icon on the desk top and be listed in finder.
 
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pendragon1 said:
you plug it in and use it, choose if you want to back up to it or not. what do you mean by transparent? its a second drive, it will show up as an icon on the desk top and be listed in finder.
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Basically I want to behave like the internal factory drive. I don't want to pick where the apps get installed, etc.
 
afiak you cant unless it has an installer(pkg) and you can direct it to another location. everything, especially app store apps, goes on the main drive in /applications/.
 
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That ^^^. Unless your app allows you to choose (like 99% of Windows apps but still need to write to the registry on the primary drive)..
 
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You can change your App Store preferences to target another disk, if you ever buy products through the App Store. For non-App Store apps that won’t let you change the target destination, you may be able to create a symlink to the external drive. So, install app as normal, move it over to your external drive, then symlink the app in the Applications directory to the new app location. Yes, you’ll be using Terminal to do this and may have to do so as sudo. I can’t guarantee that this will work but it’s worth a try if you’re hard up for storage.
 
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