I would like to install MS Office 2016 on my MacBook Pro but there's not enough space. I thought of installing it on an external USB drive. However, I got an error message that "Microsoft Office 2016 can't be installed on this disk. OS X isn't installed.", and hence I couldn't install it.
Is there anyhow to overcome this situation?
I have one more question which is, is it possible to consider a cloud storage drive like Google Drive as a kind of USB and install an app on it?
Best Answer
No, you can not. The very fact that it requires you to go through the install procedure means that there is more going on than just a file being copied over to your Applications folder. Things are being installed in your systems folders, which is the reason why you need to select a drive with Mac OS X installed.
If you were to do as @NoahL said in his answer, the program would only run on computers where the installer had been run in the past.