How to Safely Move Mac Folders to an External SSD (Step-by-Step Guide)

[@ElmarHarbecke]

Thank you sharing your knowledge. Really helpfull! Like to see the videos you have teasered.

[@Juber-m3n]

Thanks for sharing

[@SCHULTZ-nt5jz]

Thank you Sir. Truly beneficial and loved your step by step explanation. ❤

[@jojos8888]

Thanks for the video. Very useful! I didn’t quite get the part at 6.17 on how u create the original path in terminal. The video seems to have skipped over? 😅

[@LeoEverydayTech]

Thanks for pointing this out. I have posted a screenshot for clarification.

[@SCHULTZ-nt5jz]

Thank you Sir. Truly beneficial and loved your step by step explanation. ❤

[@H-JPe]

After deleting folders Music, Movies (German = „Filme“), Download,etc and setting up symbolic links - like described in the video - I discovered that MacOSX is creating the folders again. Not sure if this is the case because of language reasons („Movie“ in English / „Film“ in German)? Did anyone else discover this? Is there a way to avoid this?

[@LeoEverydayTech]

macOS recreates these folders because the symbolic link doesn't perfectly align with the system's naming conventions, which include case sensitivity and localized names. To prevent macOS from recreating these folders, the symbolic link must occupy the exact expected naming convention as macOS requires.

[@torqueabhi_]

I cannot delete the downloads folder

[@LeoEverydayTech]

Method 1: drag the folder while holding down the option key. Method 1: Use the terminal command "rm -r "

[@H-JPe]

@@LeoEverydayTech In my case this did not work. I had to use the command "sudo rm -rf "