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    iTunes Library to external drive.

    I am moving from my iMac to MBP. Because of less internal storage I have copied my 1.5 TB iTunes Media folder to three 2TB external drives as a safety precaution. Now I have read that I should have copied the iTunes folder instead of iTunes Media. Will this make a difference? Also, in the...
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    El Capitan doesn't recognize HDD docking station

    Hello, I've recently bought a Orico 6648susj3-bk docking station. It worked for a few days, then I ejected the hard drives from my mac and when today I connected to mac again the drives are not showing up on finder or in disk utility. I've checked Apple=> about=>system report=>usb And the...
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    2013 A1466 Air died, how to read the SSD?

    I bought an A1466 Air in Spring of 2013. Unfortunately, without it functioning, I do not have the actual hardware revision -- simply just what was printed on bottom of the case. (FYI, the machine just flat out died, no charge light, no liquid damage, etc). I am looking for an adapter for the...
    • maokh
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    • a1466 backup external drive ssd
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Air
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    Let's talk external drives

    I've got a late 2013 MBP and am out of room on my internal drive. Mostly Steam games. My intent is to run an external drive for mostly the games and I may install Windows on there too but that's a whole other thread. My frustration lies in the fact that I can not seem to find the right combo of...
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    Photos won't upgrade iPhoto-Libraries on external drive.

    Please help. When iPhoto stopped to work I hadn’t downloaded the latest update of it. So when Photos came there was no other option than to let it transfer my current iPhoto to Photos. My older iPhoto Libraries are stored in an external hard disk. I didn’t try before now to let Photos open and...
    • sverremac
    • Thread
    • external drive help! iphoto no access photos app
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    Does OSX corrupt External Hard Drive?

    I really don't understand what's wrong with my hard drives! Does OSX corrupt external hard drives? I have faced 4-5 hard drive failure in last 3 years after switching OSX. Lost so many priceless data. Now I regret using OSX. Is there any solution to it? Anyone else facing this?
    • soum91
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    • external drive fault osx problem
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
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    Drive Vanished during backup

    I plugged in a USB3 external drive into the back of my WD Duo (4TB raided) drive (which is USB3 to my iMac Retina). I kicked off a backup using Carbon Copy cloner. When I woke up, I got the error message that the destination disappeared. I should note that I was getting warnings by my mac...
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    iMac & external hard drive question

    i recently purchased a WD 4TB My Book external hard drive to back up my mac. however after setting it up i realized that what i wanted to do was not use it as so much of as back up, but use it as a place to move data and free up my 2008 imac's internal available space so that it will run faster...
    • johnlandino
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    • external drive imac osx
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: iMac
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    G-Drive w/ Thunderbolt

    Question for you guys. I have a G-Drive with Thunderbolt working absolutely great with my 5k iMac. When ready to shut down the computer, I know you must unmount the drive by either dragging it to Trash or ejecting it from Finder. But after that, is there any difference whether to shut down the...
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