Moving Photo and Publisher to External Boot Drive Mac 10.12.6

[mgincnj]

I have a late 2013 iMac running MacOS 10.12.6 and am currently running Affinity Photo and Publisher.

My internal hard drive has started to slow, and rather than pay to replace it, I'm thinking of purchasing a Thunderbolt 2 enclosure and running two external hard drives: a 1 or 2 TB SSD, which will become the boot, application, and active documents drive, and an 8TB data drive which I'll partition for Time Machine and deep backup for a variety of things.  The latter will replace a series of slower USB 2 external drives, which are also annoyingly slow.  My goal is to get another year's use out of this machine, which with 24 GB of RAM, has served me well.

My question is what I have to do move the current applications, presumably to the applications folder on the external ssd.  At this stage I'm not looking for detailed instructions, just principles.  Do I transfer manually, or try to clone parts of the existing boot drive using time machine or something else?

Thanks~

 

 

[stokerg]

On 6/29/2019 at 12:37 AM, mgincnj said:

My question is what I have to do move the current applications, presumably to the applications folder on the external ssd.

Hi mgincnj,

It should just be a case of moving the Affinity icon (which is the full app) from Applications to the Applications folder on the external drive.  You shouldn't need to clone anything but i'm sure if anyone knows they better method they will post shortly  

 

[mgincnj]

Thanks!  I just ordered the SSD and enclosures, so we'll put it to the test soon!  Very pleased with the Affinity apps!  I'm a long time owner/user of CS-3, mostly Photoshop and Indesign, and it's been a huge drag to worry about whether the next version of Mac OS was going to render them useless.