Is there anyway to move the Drive folder to another drive. My MacBook Pro has a 120GB SSD and a 2TB hard drive and would like the iCloud folder on the 2TB as space is not a premium on that.
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Move iCloud Drive folder
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An alias might work, but on my Mac pro my entire home folder is on a secondary drive, with just my OS and apps on the SSD
How to move your home folder to another drive: http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/qt/Move-Your-Home-Folder-To-A-New-Location.htm
How to move your home folder to another drive: http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/qt/Move-Your-Home-Folder-To-A-New-Location.htm
The iCloud folder is deeply hidden in the library. The only place you can move it is in the Finder sidebar. Trying to move the library folder will only create issues.
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This Ars Techina link explains it. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/15/#icloud-drive
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This Ars Techina link explains it. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/10/os-x-10-10/15/#icloud-drive
Thanks but that's not what I mean. I'm trying to discover if I can move the iCloud folder from its default location to another disk - ie an external disk, and if it will still function from there just like you can relocate a Dropbox folder.
The iCloud Drive folder is actually inside your library folder and the only way to move it AFAIK is to relocate your entire home folder to the external drive
Thanks Phil.
That's a shame. I really want to utilise that 50gb I'm paying for but can't on my small SSD boot drive.
ARGHH! Really?? I was just about to transfer all my files to icloud drive from dropbox. THIS IS A DEAL KILLER APPLE! Unacceptable! There has to be a solution???
OP could create their Mac into a fusion drive if it is an internal 2TB HDD.
otherwise, one option is to create an external bootable OS with a sizable HDD, with iCloud Drive enabled and dump everything there, as that will be your main reference point, thus your smaller capacity devices should still be able to access the files and add to them as needed.
otherwise, one option is to create an external bootable OS with a sizable HDD, with iCloud Drive enabled and dump everything there, as that will be your main reference point, thus your smaller capacity devices should still be able to access the files and add to them as needed.