We’ve had some related feature requests @davekloempken (shared below), but essentially, Local can’t be entirely moved/run from an external drive. While your site files might be able to be moved over, Local will still create some of the infrastructure things (NGINX/PHP/MySQL) configuration on the main hard drive.
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