---
id: moving-folders.can-storage-studio-move-docker-data
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/can-storage-studio-move-docker-data
category: "Moving folders"
subcategory: "Moving specific folders"
question: "Can Storage Studio move Docker's data to my external drive?"
alt_questions:
  - "Docker Desktop using too much space"
  - "Move Docker VM data to SSD"
  - "Docker disk image on external drive"
  - "relocate docker storage studio"
short_answer: "Not by moving its folder — Docker's data sits in an app container and would break whenever the drive is away. Use Docker Desktop's own disk image location setting to put it on another drive, and prune unused images and volumes in Docker."
tags: ["docker", "developers", "app data"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-wont-storage-studio-move-an-apps-data-folder", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/can-storage-studio-move-xcode-simulators-or-derived-data"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Can Storage Studio move Docker's data to my external drive?

Not by moving its folder. Docker's data lives in an app container on your Mac, and moving that behind a link would leave Docker broken whenever the drive is unplugged, so What's Using Space shows its size without offering a move.

Docker Desktop has its own setting for where its disk image lives, which is the supported way to put it on another drive; make sure the drive is always connected when Docker runs. Pruning unused images and volumes from Docker itself also frees a lot of space.

See [Why won't What's Using Space move an app's data?](https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-wont-storage-studio-move-an-apps-data-folder)