---
id: moving-folders.which-folders-are-worth-moving-to-an-external-drive
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/which-folders-are-worth-moving-to-an-external-drive
category: "Moving folders"
subcategory: "How moving folders works"
question: "Which folders are worth moving to an external drive?"
alt_questions:
  - "What should I move to my external SSD?"
  - "Best folders to offload from a MacBook"
  - "What takes the most space that I can move?"
  - "which mac folders can go on an external drive"
  - "What should I move first to free up space?"
  - "What are good candidates to relocate?"
short_answer: "Big folders of your own that you keep but don't need on the built-in drive every minute: finished projects, video exports, old installers and large parts of Downloads or Documents. What's Using Space puts a Move to fast drive button on the safe ones."
tags: ["moving folders", "what to move", "whats using space"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-wont-storage-studio-move-my-browser-folder", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/what-should-i-not-move-to-an-external-drive"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Which folders are worth moving to an external drive?

Large folders of your own that you keep but don't need on your built-in drive all the time: finished projects, video and photo exports, audio and music libraries you've finished with, old installers, and big parts of Downloads, Desktop or Documents.

The quickest way to find them is **What's Using Space**: it measures your biggest folders and puts a **Move to fast drive** button beside the ones Storage Studio can move safely. For anything else, use **Data Parking** to pick folders yourself.

Apps' own data — including developer tools' data — is handled differently: Storage Studio only moves the part an app rebuilds by itself, never the settings and sign-ins around it.

See [Why won't Storage Studio move my browser's folder?](https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-wont-storage-studio-move-my-browser-folder)