Let us know your thoughts in the comments. That being said, hopefully, there will still be a way to make your Mac computing flexible to fit your needs. Swapping in a 2 TB HDD will always be cheaper than buying an Apple certified 2TB expansion HDD with an Apple-branded modular enclosure. Will it be limited also to dongles or only Apple-approved expansion modules? Probably. With the sort of experience I'm having with maxing out my Mac mini's Thunderbolt 3 ports, I'd be lying if said I wasn't worried about Apple's upcoming Mac Pro that is rumored to be 'modular'. Note that these types of customized home folders should only be used if you use a stationary Mac like a Mac mini or an iMac.
If you're really in need of freeing up local disk space, you can also set up Symbolic Links in your home folder to have all of your documents, downloads, music, etc, run from the remote disk. Now you'll have a Photo Library running from your remote drive no longer using local disk space. It brought many developments made in Apples iOS, such as an. A preview of OS X 10.7 Lion was publicly shown at the 'Back to the Mac' Apple Special Event on October 20, 2010. So for example, if you want to open a new Photo Library from the networked location, do the following. OS X Lion, 5 6 also known as Mac OS X Lion, 2 (version 10.7) is the eighth major release of macOS, Apple s desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. Typically, the mount will be in /Volumes/NameOfShareYouSelected. Now that you have the network drive permanently mounted, you can assign your various programs to use that location for default file storage. Now each time you log in, that remote drive will be mounted.
