How to use symbolic links in macOS to load balance your dataWant to use your various disk drives more efficiently? You can by using symbolic links!
Running out of disk space is bad. Having multiple disk drives and not using them to their full potential is worse. Some applications have preferences that can be changed to have data stored in any location or disk drive you desire. Those are easy to make certain that you're using all of the resources available to you. But what about those applications that do not give you that option? Are you out of luck? Not so! Here's how to use symbolic links on macOS so that you can spread your data across as many drives as you like for any application you need.
Understanding symbolic links
Words of warning
Best use case is the desktop environment
Setting up symbolic links
Final comments
Understanding symbolic links
A symbolic link (symlink for short) is a sub-option of the ln Unix command that allows for the "linking" of files and directories across many locations on a filesystem. As per the ln man page:
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How to use symbolic links in macOS to load balance your data
