How to place the Containers data of the application on the external hard drive without turning off SIP?
by Poster
May 6, 2025
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rt, if you turn off SIP, you just create a new volume and mount it to the corresponding point under Containers. If you want to turn on SIP at the same time, is there any alternative method? I tried the soft link method and it seems that this will not confirm the directory correctly.
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Anonymous4868 May 7, 2025Create a new user and set the user file to the external hard disk, but the biggest problem with this solution is that the relay is not easy to use
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Anonymous8449 May 7, 2025@ Anonymous4868 Don't do this. The consequence of the M4 Pro Mac mini+15. 3.1 system doing this is that after restarting the Mac, the user initializes again and then the data hangs
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Anonymous4868 May 8, 2025@ Anonymous8449 I haven't encountered this problem after using it for a few months, but there are indeed many small bugs
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Anonymous4868 May 8, 2025@ Anonymous8449 The external upgrade of the system is troublesome, and there is no reliable solution
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Anonymous8449 May 8, 2025@ Anonymous4868 It is recommended to only softly link specific paths to external. Do not install the system on external hard disks. Do not change the entire user to external including the entire ~/Downloads. It is also not recommended to link the entire path to external
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Anonymous4868 May 8, 2025@ Anonymous8449 # 5 Is the best way to softlink ~/Library to an external
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Poster May 13, 2025@ Anonymous8449 The problem now is that not turning off SIP does not allow me to mount or soft link to ~/Library/Containers/*, and I tried to even if SIP is turned off, the application is not accessible to soft link content without mounting