---
id: moving-folders.why-is-relocate-not-available-for-cloud-destinations
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/why-is-relocate-not-available-for-cloud-destinations
category: "Moving folders"
subcategory: "Moving folders to a cloud account"
question: "Why isn't Relocate available when the destination is a cloud account?"
alt_questions:
  - "Relocate greyed out for Google Drive"
  - "Leave a shortcut to a cloud file"
  - "Why can't I keep a link to Dropbox files?"
  - "relocate cloud not offered"
short_answer: "A link on your Mac can only point somewhere your Mac can open directly, and a path inside a cloud account isn't one. For cloud destinations Data Parking offers Move and Merge, which upload the files without leaving links."
tags: ["relocate", "cloud", "links"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/can-data-parking-move-folders-to-a-cloud-account", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/what-does-relocate-do-in-data-parking"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# Why isn't Relocate available when the destination is a cloud account?

Because a link on your Mac can only point to a place your Mac can open directly, and a path inside a cloud account isn't one. So for cloud destinations Data Parking offers **Move** and **Merge**, which upload the files and then remove the originals after checking — without leaving links behind.

If you want files to stay reachable from the same place on your Mac, use the fast drive instead, or move them into a cloud provider's own folder on your Mac (listed under **Folders on this Mac**), which the provider's app manages.

See [Can Data Parking move folders to a cloud account?](https://storagestudio.us/faq/moving-folders/can-data-parking-move-folders-to-a-cloud-account)