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HFS+ encrypted external could not mount or not be repaired - OS X
I have a serious problem with my TimeMachine external 8TB Seagate.
It has been used as my TimeMachine disk. Did a full backup, installed lastest OS X from scratch and the external disk will no longer ...
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Why does an APK file size of 7.6 MB allocate 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard drive when reverse-engineered?
I have an apk file size of 7.6 MB. When I reverse-engineer this apk file through apktool, which is a reverse engineering tool for apk files, it allocates 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard ...
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How do I create a bootable copy of my operating system on an external HDD?
I have a MacBook Air which I'll be installing Linux on, and want to copy the operating system to an external hard drive so I don't lose my files. I tried using Clonezilla, however it does not show up ...
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MacOS - Creating Symbolic Link for User Library from External HD to Primary HD
I have a new 2018 Mac Mini. I use Macs a lot at work, but this is my first Mac for home use.
I have about 4TB of documents, data, photos and other media … far exceeding the 512GB SSD primary drive....
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How to fix “Operation not supported” on mac os
I am trying to install the Flutter onto my computer onto an external drive I have followed the instructions on their website to try and install it. https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/install/macos. ...
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Files on the external driver not opening after using the driver on mac
I used to work on windows using my external hard drive. Today I just use it on Mac to move some files. Then I tried to open a file from my external driver using windows laptop but my work is not in ...
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External Disk shows used up space but i am not able to find any files inside
I have a MacBook Pro with Mac OS 10.14.6.
My external hard disk was working fine until one day all of a sudden it went blank, it doesn't show files anymore...
I have a WD external HD and I am using ...
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Time Machine backup folder getting twice as big on other hdd?
So i have an old 1TB HDD for my Time Machine backups. Its nearly full (950gb used) and now i decided to move to a bigger HDD (i buyed a 5TB drive, but made partitions to split it to 2TB and 3TB, the ...
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TimeMachine: Will MacOS let me add second cloned HDD then use both?
Starting from one TimeMachine 2TB external USB HDD filled to 1.2TB, I used the Apple-recommended "Drag Backups.backupD folder" to a second 6TB external HDD. Counting files (5M) took 2 days (!) then ...
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My terminal and filesystem are hanging on macOS when dealing with millions of files
So I have had an external hard drive connected to my laptop, and have been writing millions of files to the external hard drive. One directory even has over 2 million folders at the first level deep.
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Allocation unit for exFAT on macOS
I've spent the last few days researching how to get exFAT formatted drives to work on macOS without finding any authoritative information on the subject. Many seem to throw their hands up and declare ...
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External disk with encrypted Time Machine partition doesn't eject properly
I'm not sure when this started, maybe when I setup my Time Machine partition to be encrypted or maybe at a particular OS update, but the Time Machine drive no longer ejects properly. I'd love some ...
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Mount an external hard drive if connected to the same folder
I am using MacOS Mojave 10.14.3, and I want to achieve something similar to this.
In Ubuntu I have this configuration to be able to mount an external disk to the same folder using its UUID. In this ...
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Ghost external HDD (OSX): nowhere to be seen
I need to retrieve a hard drive, which was used on Mac, but when connecting the drive it boots and lights-up, except that it doesn't mount, in fact it doesn't appear in my USB bus connection despite ...
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External SSD Drive won't mount on OSX
A colleague at work has a Kingston 240GB SSD drive which has come out of a now dead computer. We want to be able to recover some data from it (no backups sadly) however the drive won't mount properly....
