Move vault

Help
1

Hi

Can I move my Obsidian vault from my internal harddrive ro my external harddrive?

2

You can, but a few things to think about:

  • Is the external drive a SSD or a slow spinning disk?
  • Will it be mounted/available all the time?
  • How fast is the connection? USB2? 3? Thunderbolt?
  • Is the connecting cable wobbly; that is to say, can it easily fall out and disconnect?
3

Hi

Its not an SSD disk its a permanently mounted external WD 2,5” 2 Tb harddrive with USB 3.0 connection and not wobbly at all.

4

Give it a go then!

  1. copy (not move) the vault folder to the external drive.
  2. rename the folder (for now).
  3. in the vault switcher, Manage vaults…, chose Open folder as vault and point the Finder/Windows Explorer at that folder.
  4. use that as your vault going forward.
5

Thanks

I have copied it to the external drive called G in the root but its the same name as in the Obsidian third and fourth I have nopt done yet.