How to move support folders to external drive?

I have probably more than 20 GB of support material - templates, etc. - for DVDSP, Color, iDVD (which I don't even use), on my internal hard drive.
It could be helpful to move it out onto one of my external HD's, but I'm not sure if I should or how to.

You can move items pretty easily then recoonect for DVD SP you would. Go to preferences and point the template location (and other elements) to where the templates are on the external hard drive.
For instance In DVD SP Preferences -> Destinations -> Palette Elements and point to the folder.
(If you cannot find the templates, do a search for items containing the name .dsptemplate to find the folder where templates are on the external)
I usually move only the big things (usually audio for Soundtrack, which is about 20 Gigs, which you can reindex, DVD SP Templates and stuff which I do not use) but do leave some things such as Motion where they are. Not sure how much Color really has, but are you talking about the render files?

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