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  1. R

    Copying from External HD (EXFAT) to MAC

    My external HD is a exfat file format, when i try and copy from that to my MAC, it says 'cannot copy file, the file already exists'. But obviously it doesnt. copy to the HD is fine but not from the HD. any suggestions or tips? thanks
  2. T

    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    I have 2 hard drives which I copy all my Final Cut Pro projects to. I use these drives with Windows 10 as well, so they are in exFAT. One of the drives now comes up with this message when I boot up: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." It gives options to Initialize...
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    Safari cannot browse connected drive

    Hi, I've recently had this problem: I cannot save downloaded file to connected external hard drives, the drives don't show eject symbol and when I click on them, they show nothing. This can be solve by restarting Safari but just temporarily, it comes back after a couple of minutes. I have 3...
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    Change HDD in hfs+ in fat/exfat without format?

    Can I change my USB HDD formatted in hfs+ (mac os x journaled) in windows compatible formats? Like Exfat for istance? Without formatting hdd and losing the datas inside?
  5. davidwellens

    Resolved Constantly repairing ExFat drive on OSX

    Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I think it kind of is? Any way, please let me know if it isn't. We use an ExFat drive for editing and we constantly need to repair its files and permissions before we can mount it on OSX again. The reason it's ExFat formatted is because a...