Apps · Moving apps to your fast drive

Can I move apps to a cloud account or a network drive?

Short answer: No. Apps run from a fast drive physically connected to your Mac. Cloud and network storage are too slow and unpredictable for running apps; use them for files instead.

No. Apps run from your fast drive — a drive physically connected to your Mac that Storage Studio has set up. Cloud accounts and network shares aren't suitable for running apps: they can be slow, may go offline, and macOS doesn't treat them like a local disk.

Cloud accounts are for your files — see Data Transfers.

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