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Can I move apps to another partition?
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You could if you really want, but...
... it's not really a good idea to move apps from the boot volume Applications folder. This could mess with updates when updates are required, or produce other unintended results.
WHY do you need to move them?
You can't "free up" space on a DRIVE by moving things from one partition to another on the same drive.
This -might- free up space on a partition, but the better solution here is to resize partitions accordingly so that your boot partition has enough room for the OS and apps.
You COULD free up space on a drive by moving stuff to ANOTHER DRIVE.
But again, I wouldn't move apps this way.
I would move other stuff, such as excess data files that aren't frequently accessed.
Good candidates would be movies (which take up lots of space).
Also photos and music.
... it's not really a good idea to move apps from the boot volume Applications folder. This could mess with updates when updates are required, or produce other unintended results.
WHY do you need to move them?
You can't "free up" space on a DRIVE by moving things from one partition to another on the same drive.
This -might- free up space on a partition, but the better solution here is to resize partitions accordingly so that your boot partition has enough room for the OS and apps.
You COULD free up space on a drive by moving stuff to ANOTHER DRIVE.
But again, I wouldn't move apps this way.
I would move other stuff, such as excess data files that aren't frequently accessed.
Good candidates would be movies (which take up lots of space).
Also photos and music.
Thanks for the info. I have only 950GB bootdrive (OWC PCIe SSD). iTunes folder is already on other drive. But I have a lot of pro apps. Adobe PS, indesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, FPC, etc.
all the apps can't equal 950Gig... The data the applications "can" acess will fill that space, which can be moved to another drive.
this includes all pdf documents and illustrator files files, as some of them can be huge.
You can leave the application itself on the boot drive, but the files you open with them back be anywhere
best method is to get an external drive and move these drives to this external... That will be the only way to free up space on the drive.
An OS can only know about the its own free space. and any other partitions it can access.
If you have 2 partitions, by reducing one of them, you increase the other.... so you can increase your boot drive, and shrink the other one. '
If you don't have enough free space on the drive itself, an external drive is the only option.
this includes all pdf documents and illustrator files files, as some of them can be huge.
You can leave the application itself on the boot drive, but the files you open with them back be anywhere
best method is to get an external drive and move these drives to this external... That will be the only way to free up space on the drive.
An OS can only know about the its own free space. and any other partitions it can access.
If you have 2 partitions, by reducing one of them, you increase the other.... so you can increase your boot drive, and shrink the other one. '
If you don't have enough free space on the drive itself, an external drive is the only option.
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Well... only system and apps are on bootdrive. Backup with Timecapsule of 2 TB. Jobs are on separate internal SSD of 1 TB with Chronosync backup on another internal drive. I have enough space in my cMP 5.1. 
Some 6,5 TB. + 4TB external for all my movies.
Some 6,5 TB. + 4TB external for all my movies.