Hey I have a question about where my applications are stored my primary drive and boot drive is my sad 60gb but I have the 500gb hard drive still mounted and want to use that to put my applications on it. How would I go about doing that so I don't use up all of my ssd memory?
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Applications are stored on your boot drive* (normally named "Macintosh HD", unless you renamed it) in the Applications folder.
Look how big it is and decide for yourself, if you should relocate some applications, which can be done with small ones, but not the big ones, as it is not advised to store applications somewhere else, due to accessing the library and vice versa.
To find out, where you hard drive capacity is being used, you can use the following free applications:
Maybe try a combination of several, if you still can't find the "missing" capacity.
Btw, "memory" is not the same as "hard drive capacity":
It is recommended, to have 10 to 20 % of the HDD's capacity unused.
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Look how big it is and decide for yourself, if you should relocate some applications, which can be done with small ones, but not the big ones, as it is not advised to store applications somewhere else, due to accessing the library and vice versa.
To find out, where you hard drive capacity is being used, you can use the following free applications:
Maybe try a combination of several, if you still can't find the "missing" capacity.
Btw, "memory" is not the same as "hard drive capacity":
It is recommended, to have 10 to 20 % of the HDD's capacity unused.
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It may work with small applications, that have no installer or other dependencies, but with something like iTunes or Safari or Adobe applications it is NOT recommended.
Is you Applications folder that big, and was my post that out of line?
See, now there are two conflicting messages in this thread, and as you can also see, the OP probably doesn't know what you mean with "link to applications folder".
Do you have any guide or info about what you mean?
Probably nothing at the level of someone who doesn't know how to link a folder. OP, don't listen to me. Sorry!
He can try moving the User folder to another partition or drive? This might free up some space, but I don't recommend moving the application folder either.
Don't move any system files or apps from their default locations. Doing so can cause some apps to fail to operate or update properly. If you want to free up space, move your user files.
See all I want to do is have my program files on my ssd and have my other apps on my hard drive is that possible?
Again, some apps may not operate or update properly if moved from the boot drive. Leave all your apps on the boot drive in the /Applications folder. Move your user files to the other drive.
If it is just your own files and folders and not your actual Home folder, then yes.
Otherwise: http://martinbay.net/how-to-move-user-folder/
You could also use symbolic links.
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Alright so one more question would I just be better of getting a bigger SSD like a 120gb?
For my mobile Mac I got a 120 GB SSD, after seeing that a 60 GB SSD is a bit small for me, especially if I have 20+ GB of applications. I also have another internal HDD for storing data.
May iMac has the 60 GB SSD now, but since it is local, I can use a two 1.5 TB HDDs for storing data created with it.
But as I also have a nature of using external HDDs for a dozen years now, I don't mind them.
Yeah i have a 60gb ssd in my mac mini. I think ill upgrade to the 120gb ocz vertex 3 haha.