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External Drive Shows in Sys.Profiler but Won't Mount/absent from DiskUtility (OSX 10 & 11)
I have a Sandisk 1TB Extreme USB-C external SSD that I bought and filled with an important 900GB dataset on about 16 months ago. I have not used it since. I have probably updated my mac OS to several ...
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Convert .wav to .mp3 with specific codec using LAME
I have two audio files, One is .mp3 format ( extension is .wav but the file is .mp3 ) and other is actual .wav format. I am trying to convert actual .wav format same as first .mp3 file.
First .mp3 ...
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Format a USB disk on PURE FAT32, one partition only, on a Mac
There are other questions on SO about this, but not asking what I want.
I do not want to know how to format an external FAT32 disk from terminal, because this can be done by typing this:
sudo ...
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External SD card cannot be erased or formatted
Back Story: Recently i have got a new phone (Android Pie), and i still have my old one (Android Oreo). I have been using an external SD card (64GB) for the past 3 years with my old phone, and now i ...
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Format one partition of usb hdd in macos format ensuring others partition remain untouched
My macbook air os has been crashed and need to reinstall the os but to take backup first.
Its only boot in safe mode only where it mount only its own format(journaled) external drives.
Ntfs drive did ...
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convert .mov video to .mp4 with ffmpeg
I am trying to convert a .mov video to .mp4 with ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -i ~/Desktop/Sample.mov ~/Desktop/Sample.mp4
This doesn't work though, and when I try to open the produced video in quicktime it tells ...
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What format should I use?
I have a USB flash drive. I would like to use it on 3 platforms.
The problem is that, I can't find any format that supports both reading and writing on OS X, Windows and Android.
(I am now using ...
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How to transfer data from Windows to Mac using USB
What is happening:
I have a PC running Windows 8.1 and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.2. I also have a USB which is 8GB. My Mac isn't connected to the internet but my PC is. When I connect my USB to my ...
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Is there a way to bypass the MS-DOS(FAT32) drive format to copy large files without reformatting?
On OSX, I'm trying to copy a 7GB file to an external drive whose format is MS-DOS(FAT32), and am getting the
Can't be copied because it is too large for the volume's format.
message.
According to ...
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Is it possible to burn a bootable OSX Mavericks ISO on a DVD?
My early 2011 Macbook Pro is almost full right now, and I was thinking about formatting and installing the new OSX Mavericks, because it's free.
But.
Since my Macbook came with OSX Lion 10.7.5 ...
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What is the best drive format to share data between Mac, Linux and OS X?
Note: I'm not asking how... I know that. I'm currently using Paragon Software's drivers which let you access all drive formats from all OSes (e.g. the Linux drive from OSX or the OSX drive from Win7, ...
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Formatting a hard drive for just OS X using a PC?
I'm looking to format an external hard drive for use exclusively Mac OS X (for use with the time machine feature), but the Mac that I'm using is too slow to format the entire harddrive.
Considering ...
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Recover Files From Formatted HFS+ Partition
I offered to help a friend of mine with his computer, and it turned out to be a bit more complicated than I first thought. He originally came to me asking me to recover some of his files from his ...
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Completely formatting a USB flash drive
I have a Verbatim Store 'n' Go drive which by default comes with software in a partition which password protects the drive. I want to erase this partition, as it only works on Windows (I'm having to ...
