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lowendlinux

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I have a really nice 3TB 2.5" external drive that I use between my Linux boxes, my work MP, and my daughters Windows PC, and supposedly my 10.11 iMac. The drive works fine on everything but the iMac. I tried google and it sorta told me to input defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility advanced-image-options 1 into the terminal and I did and it still doesn't work. Does anyone else have issues with an exfat external in El Cap?
 
I have a really nice 3TB 2.5" external drive that I use between my Linux boxes, my work MP, and my daughters Windows PC, and supposedly my 10.11 iMac. The drive works fine on everything but the iMac. I tried google and it sorta told me to input defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility advanced-image-options 1 into the terminal and I did and it still doesn't work. Does anyone else have issues with an exfat external in El Cap?

Did you use Windows to format the drive?
 
Please do the following:

Note: The following procedure must be performed on an OS X user account that has administrative privileges.

  1. Disconnect the external disc from your Mac.
  2. Open Terminal.
  3. Enter the following:

    sudo tail -f /var/log/system.log
  4. Enter your OS X user account password if you're prompted to.
  5. Connect the external disc to your Mac.
  6. Include any relevant messages printed to the Terminal window in a reply to this post.
 
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