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What if I don't want to use external storage anymore and want to go back to storing my data locally?

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Written by Heidi Liou
Updated over 2 years ago

Step 1: Redirect the Rewind app to use the original storage location

  1. Quit Rewind

  2. Open Terminal and copy & paste the following to delete the config

    defaults delete com.memoryvault.MemoryVault appDataPath

Step 2: Copy the data from your external drive back to the original location

  1. Open Terminal and copy & paste the following:

    cd "${HOME}/Library/Application Support"

  2. Copy & paste the following to delete the data at the destination, if it exists:

    rm -rf com.memoryvault.MemoryVault

  3. Copy & paste the following to copy the data (assuming you renamed your external drive "Rewind-Data"):

    cp -r /Volumes/Rewind-Data com.memoryvault.MemoryVault

    Note: The messages that say "Operation not permitted" will be expected, and are safe to ignore. This typically takes 100 MB / sec so can take several minutes depending on the amount of recording data.

  4. Relaunch Rewind

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