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Question: Moving apps to SSD drive
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1688667"><p>It can be done, as gsahli has pointed out. However, not all applications are well behaved. Those that are should run fine, but the not-so-well behaved will have issues. I tried this approach for a while but found that applications wanted to create folders on the boot drive, apparently assuming that the application itself exists there, and errored out. Others reported missing files that weren't missing, just not on the boot drive any more. So, while it CAN be done, it comes with some adventures for you. I eventually gave up on it and moved all my apps back to the boot drive, then moved my data files to the other drive. That seems to work better, although some apps still expect their data files to be on the boot drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1688667"] It can be done, as gsahli has pointed out. However, not all applications are well behaved. Those that are should run fine, but the not-so-well behaved will have issues. I tried this approach for a while but found that applications wanted to create folders on the boot drive, apparently assuming that the application itself exists there, and errored out. Others reported missing files that weren't missing, just not on the boot drive any more. So, while it CAN be done, it comes with some adventures for you. I eventually gave up on it and moved all my apps back to the boot drive, then moved my data files to the other drive. That seems to work better, although some apps still expect their data files to be on the boot drive. [/QUOTE]
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