# Moving default Sync folder to another drive
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 25, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205 "2015-03-25T04:19:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@whatshisname](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/whatshisname)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/1 "2015-03-25T04:19:46Z")
Loving me some Syncthing!
Posting this for those who find themselves in this position.
I recently had the need to move the default Sync to another drive because I had run out of space on my Odroid 8 gig SD card. I moved all the files from ~/Sync to an external hard-drive with the same name and made a symbolic link to the new folder.
I was immediately presented with the “stopping folder path exists but folder marker missing” error message.
Everything quit syncing.
The fix was to create a “.stfolder” in the new folder on the external drive. Then restart all instances of syncthing on the devices using it.
Hope this helps someone.
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### Author:  [@canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/canton7)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/2 "2015-03-25T08:34:57Z")
Just to add: “.stfolder” is an empty file.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2015, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/3 "2015-03-25T08:45:24Z")
Another approach, instead of the symlink, would be;
1. Shut down syncthing.
2. Move the folder where ever you like, including the `.stfolder` marker (or you need to create that again, as you discovered).
3. Edit the folder path in the `config.xml` directly.
4. Start syncthing.
The index that is kept per folder is keyed on folder ID, not path, so this is relatively safe.
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### Author:  [@majeric](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/majeric)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/4 "2016-03-16T17:16:38Z")
That is not by any means User friendly.
Why not have the feature in the GUI?
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### Author:  [@canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/canton7)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/5 "2016-03-16T17:24:00Z")
Please don’t resurrect year-old threads 😄 Instead, open a new thread (which you did anyway).
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### Author:  [@canton7](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/canton7)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/moving-default-sync-folder-to-another-drive/2205/6 "2016-03-16T17:24:04Z")