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    Change Swap file location to internal drive when booted externally

    Hello, I was wondering if I wanted to use an external NVMe as my boot drive for a new M2 Mac, can I set the internal drive as the location for the Swap file, as I understand the built in storage is much faster than external options? Has anyone tried such a setup? Thank you. A couple of...
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    External NVME boot slow

    Hi all, I upgraded my partners iMac (2020 21.5in) with an external NVME boot drive a few months ago. It was very fast at the beginning, but now it has slowed significantly and takes several minutes to boot. Sometimes the computer crashes and freezes on boot, and I have to run disk utility in...
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