# Weird Pauses After Moving Home Directory to an External Drive

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**Category:** Mac Issues\
**Created:** [April 10, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/weird-pauses-after-moving-home-directory-to-an-external-drive/401841 "2023-04-10T00:39:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gareth\_Railways](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/gareth_railways/32/362101_2.png) [@Gareth\_Railways](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Gareth_Railways)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/weird-pauses-after-moving-home-directory-to-an-external-drive/401841/1 "2023-04-10T00:39:28Z")

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Not sure if this belongs here or in “EVE Technology and Research Center”. Anyway, I have a M2 Pro Mini with the 512GB internal SSD. I moved my Home Directory to an external NVMe SSD in a TB3/4 enclosure. Now the game is mostly unplayable due to frequent, but seemingly random, pauses. My hunch is that is has something to do with the cache being kept in “~/Library/Application Support” instead of “~/Library/Caches” or “/Library/Cache”, ‘/var/tmp’, etc. where it should be.

I was looking to move it to one of the proper cache/tmp directories on the internal drive, but there’s no way to move the cache via the UI. Is this something that can be done by editing a .plist, .ini, etc.?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2023, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/weird-pauses-after-moving-home-directory-to-an-external-drive/401841/2 "2023-07-09T00:40:03Z")

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