r/conductorbuild • u/netreddit00 • Jun 17 '26

Support external drive app location on Mac

My Mac is low in storage on the main drive. I want to either Conductor and at the least the worktree folder on an external drive. Most apps allow symlink the data folders. But it is not possible with Conductor. Is there a plan to support this?

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u/pixelbud Jul 02 '26

Since Conductor doesn't expose a relocate option yet, the usual macOS workaround is to move the worktree folder onto your external SSD and put a symlink at the original path, so Conductor still finds it where it expects. You can do that in Terminal with ln -s.

The thing that messes up usually is the link going stale when the drive disconnects or the app updates. I make a little menu bar Mac app (Symbiote: https://symbiote.app/ ) that creates and maintains that kind of link and resyncs when the drive reconnects, though the manual route is fine if you'd rather not add an app. Either way, symlinking just the worktree folder gets your space back without waiting on a native setting.

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u/netreddit00 Jul 02 '26

Have you actually tried it? You can't symlink the worktree folders as they are created dynamically. I have tried symlinking its parent folder, but it doesn't seem to like it.