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Bootable External Drive Issue on Apple Silicon M2- Need Help Resolving
Note: It is working Fine on M1 machine.
I've been encountering difficulties with my bootable external drive on my Apple Silicon Mac.
I've tried creating the bootable drive using ASR, Carbon Copy ...
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Upgrading Mac OS 10.14.6 (Mojave) to Mac OS Ventura having the installer stored and running from a external drive
I'm trying to upgrade Mac OS on my Powerbook. It is currently running Mojave. I've tried a regular (in-place) upgrade but it requires a ridiculous amount of free space on the MacBook Pro disc. The ...
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Does MacOS locally store information about external drives?
I used a borrowed Mac to transfer sensitive data directly between two USB thumb drives. Ideally, I'd like to not leave a single trace of the files and transfers on the borrowed Mac, but I understand ...
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Backing up from Dropbox (online) straight to external drive
I have all my work saved on my Dropbox account, and generally only have around 20% of that stored locally at any one time.
I'd like to buy a large external drive and back everything up onto that for ...
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Installing PCIe SSD on an enclosure for NVME Thunderbolt 3
I have OWC Aura X2 PCIe 1TB SSD, and I’m trying to purchase a right enclosure.
I see most enclosures are for either NVME and SATA. I read some articles that PCIe and NVME share the same lanes, but ...
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Is it possible to download macOS updates to external hard drive?
My work MacBook Air (2017 MacBook Air with 120gb hard drive) has a pathetically small internal hard drive, to the point where I have to uninstall Xcode and everything else before I can update macOS.
I ...
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Blue screen after connecting to additional monitors when using external USB to run windows 10 on mac
I am using an external USB hard drive to run windows 10 on my mac. Everything works fine until I connect external displays. The system just crashed and it remains a blurry blue screen even I manually ...
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Am I using Rsync properly?
This is my desired outcome:
Where I would like such an outcome across ALL sub-directories and files, in syncing all the contents of parent directory Work from my computer's desktop to an older ...
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Why does it so much time for Mac to identify and show external drive?
In windows when I insert my external HD / SD card it shows it within few seconds.
In my Mac it sometimes takes a few minutes!
What would cause this delay?
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Mac mini - how to properly shut down External Drives
I have a Mac mini that I use for development. I have 2 external drives.
One contains my docker data / images and the other is for apps that take up too much space on the Mac.
My problem is that ...
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restrict permissions on external drive
I'd like to set permissions on an external drive to 0750.
I type: chmod -R 0750 "/Volumes/My Book/"
ls -l "/Volumes/My Book" shows drwxrwxrwx for all of the sub-folders.
I also ...
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Some folders and/or files on external HDD are accessible on Linux but not on macOS and Windows
I have saved some videos on an external NTFS drive that my Linux system can see just fine.
When trying to use a macOS for the same purpose a folder I was looking for was simply missing. I didn’t have ...
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How long does it take Windows 7 to scan and repair an exFAT external drive that was incorrectly unplugged on a Mac?
It's been over 24 hours now and there is no progress bar to know what is going on. Cancel is greyed out and I'm afraid that force quitting will damage the drive. Context: Plugged in an almost full 4 ...
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Maintaining old laptop HDD as backup while replacing with newer SSD
tl;dr: Is it possible to replace an old hard drive while maintaining the existing bootable drive as an external backup?
Here is the story: I have a 10+ year old Apple Macbook Pro that still works and ...
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How do I relocate Data directory in mySQL to external drive (macintosh)?
I have read several accounts of people installing MySQL and having space issues on their internal hard drive so the data file is moved to an external drive.
I have been through what I believe are the ...
