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Hi. I am a newbie to Macs. I've got a Macbook Air 2017, and it will not install any OS - it gets so far and then says "An error occurred preparing the software update". Long story short - I've tried erasing the HD, doing First Aid, using internet recovery, trying a USB stick, using different and...

Hi all, hope well. Have a question - I've checked the top sticky but am still none the wiser. I have a USB flash drive that will only mount when in a hub. I'm confused as power should not be an issue, I've tried it on numerous Macs old and new. If it helps, details are thus; USB2.1 Hub...

Hi Guys :) I have a big problem ... I have a USB 3.1 extern hd, that I keep allot of data on. However when I plug it in after some time my iMac (2013 27") crashes. It happens every time. I first thought it might be due to the partion, so i had much trouble downsizing the efat and creating an...

[EDIT: MacOS is reading/writing all USB drives incredibly slow. I've tried 2 USB HDD, and 3 USB Flash Drives. All of them are incredibly slow even for just viewing files. read/write speeds fluctuate drastically between upwards of 10mb/s down to 5kb/s. But copying 500mb of files takes 5 minutes...

Somebody posted some time ago a Terminal series of instructions supposed to allow installing High Sierra on a computer with an SSD drive (like my End 2013 MP) and still avoid changing the file system to APFS. I would like to know it in real live anybody actually succeeded to do so? :rolleyes: A...

Hello! I have a qestion. I have iMac with usb external disk with MacOS High Sierra. ( No APFS ). When i power up imac, i see black screen. After 10 seconds, the apple logo appears and the booting from the external usb disk. All works fine but i need boot default from external USB ( save the 10...

I picked up a couple Seagate 8TB Backup Plus Hubs for Mac at a compelling price during a holiday sale, as I needed a new TM drive for my High Sierra Mac Pro and one for my new Macbook Pro. I'm just now setting it up and my initial impression upon unboxing is positive. I really like the small...