Buy the Base Storage and do this! Move your Home folder to an external drive.

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In this video I show you have to move your home folder to an external 2 terabyte SSD so that you can just buy the base model 256gig M4 mini and use an external SSD for all your Data. Buy more ram not Storage! ZikeDrive 20% off code: MSZ666 https://tidd.ly/3L15R8w Or Zike on Amazon https://amzn.to/3WFLWhY TEAMGROUP 2Terabyte NVMe (I am an Amazon affiliate) https://amzn.to/3YW8Of7 iPowerresale Mac Studios https://ipowerresale.com/collections/mac-studio?filter.mfield_cql_parent_product=true Mac Mini on sale on Amazon 525! https://amzn.to/41XUL97 written guide on Apple Insider https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos-ventura/tips/how-to-move-your-home-directory-in-macos-ventura 0:00 Intro 1:01 Comment on last video 1:36 Zikedrive 2:21 iPower Resale 2:43 Mac Mini base storage 256gig 3:37 Part 1 and 2 explained 4:10 How to setup your Mac mini 4:26 Don't log into icloud 4:39 Don't migrate your data 5:00 Logging into the Mac for the first time and connect hardrive 5:45 Format external drive in APFS GUID partition with Disk Utilitie 6:22 Move the user Home Folder 6:53 Create a folder on the external drive for the home folders to be placed 7:17 Copy all internal home folders to the new folder on the external drive 8:05 Open System Preferences and go to Users and Groups 8:12 hold down control key on the keyboard and click on our user account and open advanced options 8:35 Change the home Directory location to the new external drive folder 9:08 click ok and reboot to take effect and go through the prompts 9:31 new home folder is now active 9:45 Applications copying from the internal to the new external home folder Apple built in system apps do not get copied 10:51 Download app and move it from the internal App folder to the external App folder and then delete it from the internal App folder. 11:50 Example of how much internal storage is being saved. 12:07 Create alias to Apples system apps to the external app folder 12:30 Summery but there is more to talk about 13:05 List of what gets stored in your external Home folder 13:42 Create an Internal User account for Backup and Maintenance 15:19 Thanks for watching! Links help my channel. I am an Amazon affiliate, no on payed me to make this video. I do get a small commission if you buy a ZikeDrive enclosure direct from Zike, use my coupon code to save. Check out all my links and storefronts! https://beacons.ai/macsoundsolutions Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you — thanks for supporting the channel!