External Hard Drive

[TheHulk]

I have a 2010 Macbook with over 200GB of my 250GB used. Thinking of picking up an external hard drive for back up, but my question would be whether the external HD can be used to access programs, or is it only for backups?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Any external HDD can be used to store files/data and backups (which are just data/files anyway), and it can even be used to run applications from, though not all, as many rely on being in the Applications folder.

What applications do you have in mind?

 

[hassiman]

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