Changing ICloud drive folder location

[braincrush]

Hi, I've recently upgraded one of my imacs to the latest Imac (poor mans edition) in the old one i've had 2TB Hybrid drive and all was nice and fast, this one have the nasty 5400rpm hdd and it's a huge bottleneck, i've already ordered SSD but to save space i've also ordered an external USB3 enclosure for a 2TB Barracuda that i have spare.
I'd like to move the ICloud drive local folder to the external hdd, i know i can do that with the complete Home folder but this would definitely impact the performance, now the content of Icloud drive can be on usb3 drive as i don't need fast R/W Speeds, is there any way of accomplishing this task please ?

 

[mritech]

I’m wondering if the iCloud Drive folder actually puts stuff on the actual Mac b/c it’s on the cloud and just shows what’s on it while connected to the internet or does it keep a cache on the Mac.

Maybe right click to get the properties and change the location of the folder.

I personally never looked into this in the past.

 

[braincrush]

All the cloud solutions store local copies of the files, theres the storage optimisation which only downloads local copy as you use it but still, if you want to have quicker access to those files you need to keep them downloaded which will happen anyway after the first use, as for the iCloud the default path to the local folder is : ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud Drive/