If you only have a small SSD in your Mac or Hackintosh, then storage space can be at a premium. For most users, by far the largest thing saved on their boot drive is the User folder, which contains their user account. If your user folder is filling up your SSD and you want to keep that high-speed storage for the operating system and applications, then this guide is for you. It is possible to move your entire user account onto another drive, completely separate from your macOS boot drive. This will free up space on the boot drive and allow large media folders like Music, Movies, and Downloads to reside on a larger capacity drive. Why would you want to do that?īefore we begin, let me outline a few of the use cases for which this guide is perfect. You have a Mac with a built-in Fusion Drive which you want to break apart, to use the SSD and HDD separately.If any of them apply, then this could be a useful endeavour for you. You have a Mac or Hackintosh which permanently has an external desktop hard drive connected to it, and which you are happy moving a user account onto to save space.You have a Hackintosh with large capacity traditional drives alongside smaller SSD drives, and you want to make better use of the large storage drives.You have a MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, or iMac, which you have added an HDD to with an after-market solution such as OWC’s Data Doubler, leaving you with both an SSD and an HDD to distribute.Many designers and filmmakers don’t want to use an SSD as a scratch disk as it degrades their performance they want to set an HDD as their user folder and scratch disk, leaving the SSD for the OS. Please note, this option is not advisable unless the external drive is always connected.
An HDD (internal or external) to move your user folder onto.(It could be an HDD, but then what is the point of moving your User folder to another HDD to free space? You may as well house both on the larger drive…) An SSD boot drive which currently houses your OS and your user account.If the system boots without the drive connected, you will not be able to log in to the account as the User folder will not be found.Īssuming one of these scenarios – or a combination of them – applies to you, then we are ready to begin.
One important note: it is very advisable to retain one user account on the boot drive for troubleshooting purposes.
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