Change Arduino folder location on Macbook

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Hey guys

Everytime I download Arduino to a Macbook, it creates a folder called "Arduino" inside the Documents folder. This folder is the one that contains all installed libraries. On OS we usually store our applications and its folders on the Applications folder.

For example, Adobe always creates a folder for itself and it is storaged in Applications. However, Arduino stores it in Documents and if you try to move it to Applications it just ignores that folder and creates another one in Documents again.

I was wondering if there was a way to store this folder in Applications instead of Documents. Documents is a really bad folder to store it.

Thank you

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That folder is called the "sketchbook folder" by the Arduino IDE. You can set the location of the sketchbook folder to anywhere you like in File > Preferences > Sketchbook location.