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How to let Amazon Photos / Amazon Cloud Drive use an external drive
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How to use an external drive with Amazon Photos or Amazon Cloud Drive

  1. Install the Amazon Photos Amazon Clour Drive application. When it asks you to sync from your cloud to your local, choose any folder in your hard drive.
  2. Then, turn off the the application
  3. Plug your external hard drive in.
  4. In your Finder, go to: /Users/USER_NAME/Library/Application Support/Amazon Cloud Drive
  5. Open file amzn1.account.#########-settings.json with your text editor, you will see somethings like this:
{
    "DeviceSourceId": "################",
    ...
    "SyncPath": "/Path/To/Your/Sync/Directory"
}

  1. Change the value of SyncPath to your preferred external hard drive. To something like this "SyncPath": "/Volumes/ExternalDrive/Amazon Drive"

  2. Start Amazon client, it will ask you the location of sync folder, just click Next and the client will sync your cloud folder to your external hard drive.

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AnilRh commented Sep 12, 2022

This used to work for me, now Amazon Drive just keeps restarting if SyncPath leads to an external Drive. :(

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