Running InDesign from External Drive

Question

I have all my working files for various CC applications on an external thunderbolt drive, including the InDesign files. Unfortunately, those don't work from an external drive and have to be copied onto the local drive for editing, and then returned to their external storage. It's a pain.

So I'm thinking about moving the content of the local drive - system, apps, everything - onto the external drive and start up the computer from there. Would that allow me to edit InDesign files without copying them onto the local drive? Or will I still have to do that because the system and applications actually work from the memory on the computer and not the external drive? Please advise.

Thanks

Jens Peermann · Accepted Answer

24 Terrabytes? Are you telling me you have a 24TB external?

Yes.

I think I found a solution. The external volume has four 6TB drives that are combined in a RAID 0 configuration. Since Apple's Disk Utility no longer allows to configure RAID setups I had to get SoftRaid to configure this external volume. Apparently InDesign - or OS X - sees this as a network volume and the protection to prevent multiple users to edit the same file simultaneously kicks in.

Fortunately SoftRaid allows volumes to be converted to Apple-RAID volumes. That's what I did and now the volume shows as a subfolder of the internal drive in the Finder (it still works like a volume when backing up with Super Duper). Now I can open, edit and save InDesign files from the external volume without copying them onto the internal drive first.

judip7079 · Answer

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