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  1. M

    Spotlight & Smart Folders Broken

    I need some help with a 2018 MacBook Air. 1.6 GHz Dual Core Intel i5. 8 GB RAM on Sonoma 14.4.1. A few weeks ago Spotlight & Smart Folders tied to an External Drive started having issues. I noticed that recent files added to folders in the hard drive weren’t appearing in Smart Folders as they...
  2. Z

    windows booting from flash/ext drive?

    From my late 2009 macMin, i want to ask if its possible to boot into windows, but not having Windows on the system drive... i want to have them on a flash disk or an external drive... is this possible?
  3. R

    Catalina will not load external USB Harddrives over the network

    The usb drives are connected to a mac mini, mounted in catalina and are accessable from the machine with the drives attached. When this machine is approached over a lan the all drives are listed, internal and external. Internal drives can be browsed remotely but when an external drive is...
  4. T

    iPad Pro iPad USB port not detecting HDMI and External Drive

    Hi, I was using iPad OS 17 Beta from day 1. Few hours before ipad OS 17 official release, HDMI from USB port not working. I thought it was some kind of bug. But when I connected external drive, it also not working. HDMI and external drive also work with other devices. I thought USB C port from...
    • Techzamazing
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    • external drive hdmi ipad ipad pro ipad usb
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: iPad
  5. davebot 0.9

    External drives continually sleeping and spinning up in M2 Pro Mac mini

    I have a mystery that is driving me nuts, and Apple Support wasn't much help. I have two HDDs in an external drive enclosure that continually sleep and then spin up -- over and over, every 1 - 3 minutes. They may also disconnect themselves while I'm away, but that is a fairly rare event. The...
  6. M

    How To Install Mojave 10.14 Onto External SATA Drive, Please?

    I have a 2012 (at least I think it’s a 2012) MBP15 running Mojave 10.14.6. I need to install Mojave 10.14 ONLY on to an EXTERNAL 250gb *SATA HD. (Was hoping it was as simple as connecting the external drive to my MBP15 and just copying and pasting the OS files into the external drive, but it’s...
    • magentawave
    • Thread
    • backup external drive mojave 10.14 mojave installer
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  7. J

    external storage

    I have a MacBook Pro 9.2 (mid 2012) running Ventura 13.0.1. I have a 1gb external drive that uses usb. I want to use my Firewire 800 instead for greatly increased read/write speeds, but can't seem to find an adapter or data cable that I can use in my firewire 800 port. any ideas or will I have...
  8. bear_in_mind

    Wiping external HDD's with Apple Disk Utility not working

    I've been trying to wipe several HFS+ formatted external HDD's with Apple Disk Utility, but it's not working. The drives were in working order before attempting erasure (in preparation to donate the drives to a non-profit). They still mount, but they began the erase procedure for about an...
    • bear_in_mind
    • Thread
    • big sur 11.7 disk utility external drive formatting hfs+ security & privacy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  9. J

    External Drive Spinning in Finder

    I bought a Toshiba External Drive yesterday for my Macbook Pro. I connected it and it started to backup everything to this new time machine. However, the mounted drive shows a spinning icon next to it on the finder window. Is it supposed to be spinning continuously, or is it just for the...
  10. T

    Does Photos on an external drive with iCloud turned on use boot drive storage?

    Hi all, I think my 2012 mini is on its last legs, (currently won't get past the boot screen), and I’m wondering how I'm going to transition from its 4tb ssd internal boot drive to the options available now from Apple. I use the mini as a photos backup point (amongst other things), with iCloud...
  11. tekfranz

    16 Inch MackBook Pro -Would two external NvME drives give better transfer speeds? Should the plugged in on different sides of the Laptop?

    I am thinking of temporarily repurposing an Intel MacBook Pro as a file/ Media Server. I understand using an NvME in an enclosure is going to give the best speeds! . Would I get even better speeds if I split my applications between two smaller NvME drives? In other words I could use 2 1TB...
    • tekfranz
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    • external drive file server macbook pro 16 2019 media server nvme ssd server
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  12. D

    Resolved iMac 2011 w/ Thunderbolt 3 Dual NVMe Enclosure not showing in Disk Utility

    Hey, from what I've read (example here) it's possible to hook up an NVMe drive to an iMac mid 2011 via an Apple T3 to T2 adapter and a self-powered dock. This is the setup I'm using, with a self-powered dual NVMe enclosure (from Sabrent found here). I'm running macOS Sierra 10.12.6. I'm able to...
    • Daniel Ferreira
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    • adapter external drive nvme nvme ssd thunderbolt thunderbolt 2 thunderbolt 3
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iMac
  13. M

    How to format a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS HDD drive as an external drive for Mac

    Hi. I just bought a WD Red Plus 6TB NAS drive. My intention is to use it as a normal storage disk with my MacBook Pro using an adapter to USB. I chose a NAS drive as they are supposed to have a superior build to "normal" drives. They for example include sensors to sense shaking in order to...
    • Max xk285
    • Thread
    • external drive format hdd does not mount hdd format nas nas drive not recognized wd nas wd red wd red plus
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  14. MYZ

    Really strange windowserver bug/crash that caused my external APFS (encrypted) disk to switch to read only mode - now I need to authenticate to write

    Hi everyone! This is by far the strangest bug I've ever encountered in my 9 years of using a mac. And it's got me stumped. After all, it doesn't seem like a system crash, of any kind, should be able to affect an external drive so dramatically. Especially when there was nothing even being...
    • MYZ
    • Thread
    • bug crash external drive lacie read only windowserver
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS Monterey (12)
  15. ondert

    Can I install Windows on external TB3 drive?

    Hello, I’ve got already a TB3 enclosure which accepts m.2 NVMe ssd. This one to be specific; https://a.aliexpress.com/_va86Ba I have used this to install Windows on it and boot from there on my 2017 and 2019 5k iMacs. However, then I moved to 2020 5K iMac and couldn’t do the same thing...
    • ondert
    • Thread
    • 2020 5k imac bootcamp external drive thunderbolt 3
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iMac
  16. T

    MP All Models Transitioning from Internal to External drives

    Any experience and advice on transitioning from a Mac Pro with internal SATA drives to a Mac Desktop without user accessible internal drives? My 2008 Mac Pro is sadly past it's prime and I've been looking into options to replace it to use for storing/editing photos/videos as well as normal...
    • turtlebud
    • Thread
    • external drive mac pro mac studio
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  17. S

    External drives randomly start up

    Why do my external drives startup when exiting sleep mode? Is there a setting to prevent that?
  18. slimmy18222

    MacBook retina 12'' inch A1534 2016 DEAD SSD FIX

    Hello everybody. I've got a 12" MacBook retina A1534 2016 model with dead internal SSD. Since it's a well know hardware failure in those models and repair does not worth the effort nor buying a new Logic Board, I'm here to ask if somebody have managed to "put an other drive inside". This model...
    • slimmy18222
    • Thread
    • a1532 apple class action dead external drive fix help macbook 12 inch problem ssd
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook
  19. K

    New M1 MacBook Pros will not format the SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives

    I bought two of the SanDisk 4TB Extreme PRO Portable SSD drives (that are rated at up to 2000 MB/s) and tried to format them using Disk Utility in the latest MacBook Pro with the M1 Max chip running OS Monterey 12.0.1. They both would not format. I worked with Apple tech support and we...
    • KDLM
    • Thread
    • apfs disk utility error erase external drive extreme pro format mac sandisk speed ssd
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  20. A

    Partitioning problems

    I need to merge Untitled and Untitled 2 together to make 1 big parition, but it wont let me do squat with Untitled (other than change the formatting), what do I do? (also the Tim M drive is a time machine I dont want to delete)
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