External drives · Setting up your drive
Why can't I find Choose Drive any more?
Short answer: Choose Drive is first-run only, because switching an active drive would break every shortcut. Once a drive is set up, use More → Drive → Transfer Drive… to move to a new drive safely, or Backup Drive… for a spare copy.
Choose Drive only appears before a working drive is set up. Once you have one, switching drives that way would leave every moved app and folder pointing at a drive that's no longer there — so it's replaced by two safe options in More → Drive:
- Transfer Drive… copies everything to the new drive, verifies it, then switches over.
- Backup Drive… makes the same verified copy but keeps your current drive active.
See Transfer Drive.