Running Local from external drive possible?

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Hi @Eva

I think it can partially work but Local will still need space on the machine to be able to operate. See this comment from Ben for example:

Using external SSD as Local site path

I think it’s possible to get at least some of the site onto a different SSD, however Local will still create some of the infrastructure things (NGINX/PHP/MySQL) configuration on the main hard-drive (C:\ or ~/ depending on the OS) What operating system are you using? The permissions error you mention might have something to do with the permissions in the actual server software. Can you take a look at the Local log and see if there are any errors there? See this Community Forum post for instruct…

If you have a lot of projects in Local you could also backup and export them to move to your external hard drive for storage and simply remove them from Local when you are done. If you ever need to revisit you could import the zip file back into Local.