At this point just increase the base storage and/or make upgrades cheaper. Tim is killing the buzz of Apple Silicon and preventing increased marketshare for literally pennies. Macs are a small share of the companies profits, but could be a growth driver for services with a little more foretought. Contrary to what they might believe smaller drive sizes don't mean more spending on iCloud. I can't selectively tell which folders to keep on device no matter what, but haven't got enough space to keep everything downloaded. So I've stopped paying them and went to a service which has this revolutionary, groundbreaking feature.
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Install Mac Apps on External Storage in macOS Sequoia
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Helps a lot. You still need to clean up minor-version SDK/Simulators whenever you upgrade iOS/macOS: System Settings->General->Storage->Developer can help with this.
It's a nice feature but also an admission that their SSD tiers are a joke
This does it automatically if the app is over 1GB and there are some limits to apps that are installed outside of your internal SSD's app folder. I'm not sure if this overrides that but it would be nice
When did they take away the ability to run apps from an external drive? I definitely used to do that all the time.
Of course, Adobe will do everything to avoid this, because this would be ease of use and that goes against their malware practices.
Unfortunate that the external drive has to be APFS formatted. My 2 TB external SSD came formatted as FAT and I kept that, because it is handy to be able to move all my stuff in the blink of an eye to a Windows PC.
My 2 cents: I am running an iMac 2017 with Fusion Drive and was not happy with the performance. I cloned everything onto a 2TB external SSD and run from that. Problem solved - everything runs from the external drive, no need for special configuration! And anyway, the Intel Macs cannot run the latest versions of MacOS.
EDIT: thanks to @chrfr for pointing out that not all Intel Macs are equal: mine tops out at Ventura.
EDIT: thanks to @chrfr for pointing out that not all Intel Macs are equal: mine tops out at Ventura.
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Several Intel Macs can run the latest macOS Sequoia updates but not with all the Apple Intelligence features.
Or you can just move your home folder to an external disk and save even more space.
You can just create a new partition with APFS but it takes a while. 1 TB on my 10 TB HDD took about 5 hours. I have a exFAT partition too for VMware so three partitions with different file formats on the same drive.
I stand corrected, my model tops out at Ventura.
No it doesn't.
Apple doing everything to not bump the base storage of 256GB 
I thought apps install different kinds of files around your storage thats why you need an app like AppCleaner
According to the article here, those files may still be stored on your local drive. This sounds like this only applies to big apps themselves, not the other files.
Tim "Dont be poor" Cooks has no respect for their customers, since he "correctly" assume that we will pay.Apple doing everything to not bump the base storage of 256GB
The first bump, from 256 to 512 is pure profit for apple considering that you can get a regular NVME drive for 20 bucks with the same capacity (256GB), so imagine how much that really cost Apple, given the volume of chips they purchase.
I need a new Mac and the Mini is nice, but the pricing sucks all over, especially with the limited storage.
Thank you! Writing from a clean install of Sequoia on my iMac 2017 i5 🙂
Crucial X10 Pro 2TB external drive - solved speed and storage limits in one go...
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The Mac Mini is only a good deal for the base model using 3rd party external storage solutions
And now updated a 2013 MacBook Pro Retina... Brilliant! Thanks again for this tip!!