# Can I move the "Local sites" directory to another Disk/Drive of my PC

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-move-the-local-sites-directory-to-another-disk-drive-of-my-pc/1976>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-move-the-local-sites-directory-to-another-disk-drive-of-my-pc/1976 "2017-06-25T14:47:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Scoox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71c47a/32.png) [@Scoox](https://community.localwp.com/u/Scoox)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/can-i-move-the-local-sites-directory-to-another-disk-drive-of-my-pc/1976/4 "2020-07-22T22:50:07Z")

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I’ve succeeded in moving individual sites directories as follows:

1. Close Local
2. Move site folder to new location
3. Open **C:\Users\<user\>\AppData\Roaming\Local\sites.json** in a plain text editor (Notepad, etc). This file stores, among other things, the paths of all your Local sites.
4. Edit your site’s path to match new path and save the file.
5. Start Local and test.

The only problem is that Local doesn’t seem to like it when the site folder is on a drive other than C: (on Windows) when the server being used is Apache. Switching to Nginx fixes the problem and then it work regardless of which drive the folder is in. I’ve just reported this problem on this forum, hopefully they’ll fix it soon.

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