A storage device attached to a computer, but not enclosed within the computer's casing
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External backup drive unmounted, then endless churn
I have a 5 year old Seagate USB2 drive for backups, used for a few months with time machine on my Retina MBP.
Lately, I've been getting an error that it was improperly ejected (I didn't actually ...
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Thermaltake External HDD USB 3.0 docking station gets unmounted
I'm using a Thermaltake External HDD USB 3.0 dual drive docking station on a Mac Air. I can see the files and seem to be able to copy small files fine. When I try to move a lot of files it gets ...
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USB Thumb Drive on hub will not mount automatically
I have a 16gb SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB thumb drive. It's plugged into a powered hub, along with an external HDD - at the end of the day, I unmount (eject) the drives, and disconnect the MacBook from the ...
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Unable to abort disk decryption process
I got a 2T Western Digital portable drive as my main storage for my MacBook Air, with encryption enabled. Currently I used ~300G out of 2T, with maximum read/write speed of 30 MB/s (USB 2.0)
I just ...
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Networking an external hard drive
I want to buy a Seagate Backup Plus Desktop 4TB Thunderbolt drive, but I was wondering if it is possible to connect my external hard drive to a network. There are two options which might help:
we ...
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How to save a file quickly and no need to wait for the external hard drives to “wake up”?
Recently I have decided that since Mac does such a nice job for indexing the files, I will store many files on the Mac, so I bought a 6TB Thunderbolt external drive which is in RAID 0 Strip mode, and ...
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Encrypted/Journaled Seagate won't accept Password
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro Intel running Mountain Lion. I have a 2tb Seagate External Drive with 3 partitions: all three were set up the same way with different passwords as a person who used to live ...
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unmounted external disk still appears under “devices” in sidebar
I have an OWC Mercury 500 GB hard disk partitioned into 3 partitions. Sometimes, after using it and unmounting it, one or more partitions still appear in Finder window sidebars under "Devices."
Has ...
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Mount a disk image as physical USB drive?
I have an certificate manager ("BankID") that allows me to export certificates from its certificate store. However, for some stupid reason it only allows me to export these certificates to USB drives, ...
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Manage iPhoto on external hard disk
Most of my Mac hard drive is filled with iPhoto pictures. I have an external USB hard drive. What to do? Just moving pictures from Pictures/iPhoto Library is not a perfect option as I want to have ...
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Powerful external hard disk health checker on Mac?
Is there any powerful program in Mac to check the health status - mainly bad sectors - of an external (USB) hard disk, and to recover them?
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How can I share an external hard drive with another Mac?
I have file sharing working between my iMac (10.8.3) and MacBook Pro (also 10.8.3), and I have an external "My BooK" drive (USB, MS DOS format) that I want to share. The iMac (where the external drive ...
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Can a VirtualBox Windows 7 virtual machine be installed on a USB hard disk?
My MacBook Air has only a 64G hard drive which is so small that I don't want to install virtual machines on it. I'm planning to buy a 1TB portable USB hard disk to run virtual machines. Has anyone ...
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Recreate unknown users on crashed mac
About a month back one of our Macs crashed and we had to restore it. The computer had an external drive connected to it and all the data is still there. Though some of the users are "missing". If we ...
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External hard drive spinning up during sleep
Every time I close the lid on my macbook air, my external hard drive seems to spin up for about 5 seconds every 30 seconds, and this will go on continuously, even for several hours. The noise itself ...
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How to move iMovie library to external hard drive folder?
I would like to move all iMovie (iMove '11) events to a specific folder of an external hard drive. Apple documents a means to do this, but without specifying the folder; iMovie files are created in ...
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WD Passport External USB Drive - Really slow on Macbook
I just got a Western Digital 2 TB "My Passport" USB drive and connected it to my macbook pro (it says it supports USB 3). But when I tried to copy my photo library it said it would take 40 hours?
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Is it necessary to eject an external drive before sleeping?
I have a question similar to a previous one about ejecting before shutting down.
Is it necessary or recommended practice to eject external drives before putting a Mac to sleep, whether it be via an ...
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External drive not being recognized. Has Filevault HFS+ and FAT32 on same disk
I have a 750gb external hard drive that stopped being recognized. I can't tell with full certainty but I think it was after I connected it to a Windows computer. I've read online, in the meantime, how ...
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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Merge iTunes libraries
My iTunes library is on an external disk.
I forgot to attach the external disk once and now I have some iTunes files locally.
How do I merge these local files with the external library?
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Shortcut to eject all external hard drives but not MobileBackups
So far I've been using the following AppleScript to eject all external drives at once conveniently using a shortcut:
tell application "Finder"
eject (every disk)
end tell
This script is is ...
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Copying applications from applications folder to external and reinstalling osx
Is it possible to copy all my applications from the applications folder onto an external, format my mac, reinstall OS X and finally copy the applications back into the applications folder for ...
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USB flash drive not shown
My macbook suddenly stopped showing USB flash drives in Finder when I plug them in.
I tried 3 different USB sticks - none work (worked just fine yesterday).
USB-ports work fine - I tested all three ...
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Time Capsule external hard drive (usb)
I've added an external (Freecom XS 1TB) hard disk to my Time Capsule. However, this one's Mac Journaled (HFS+) formatted and does not display in Finder until I add a hub between the TC and external ...
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Use time machine for backing up a different computer
I've been over many faq's and troubelshooting but can't seem to find an answer to this.
I'm currently running my mac from an external HD. My internal got corrupted, I can't repair it with disc ...
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External Thunderbolt drive and Monitor from same port?
I have a MacMini 2011 booting from a GoFlex drive connected to its Thunderbolt cable.
Recently I am considering adding a second monitor. The HDMI port is already taken by my current monitor. It seems ...
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How to fix mounting problem with external drive?
I have a USB external hard drive with AC adapter that works fine with an Ubuntu machine. But when I plug it into my MacBook Air it lists one partition on the finder, and does not mount the other.
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External hard disc not ejected properly - Mac OSX
I have a late 2012 Mac Mini running OSX 10.8.2. My iTunes library lives on an external Seagate drive, which has its own power supply. When my Mac Mini goes to sleep it will frequently wake up with ...
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OS X installation on external HDD
I am planning to install a second OS X on an external HDD, I was wondering when I boot in external HDD will it in any ways affect my first OS X installation? Will it have the permissions to write or ...
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How to remove the use of master boot record from an external hard drive?
I have a 1TB external hard drive and I want to slice it into different partitions. When I try to do so, I get this error:
can not modify external drive because it uses master boot record
Is ...
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External Harddrive not mounting when TRIM enabled
A bought a brand new SSD and installed it into my 2012 macbook pro. I enabled TRIM support right after that and realized that my external usb 3 drive is no longer mounted. When I disable the trim ...
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Error copying large file to usb stick (too large) for 9GB file on 16GB Thumbdrive
Trying to copy a file (Win7_IE8.vhd) to a USB drive.
The file is 9.07GB in size according to my Mac file info.
The USB drive is 16GB. I bought it new 10 minutes ago. This is its first use.
I get:
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External hard drive problems
I've two external hard drives attached to my MBP Retina OSX Mountain Lion.
Whenever I open the Finder or switch to a Finder window, if either of the hard drives are asleep, there's a several second ...
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MBP 13 Retina - Installing Windows 7 and Moving files to external disk
I have a Macbook Pro 13 Retina and I wanted to bootcamp Windows 7 and install a game or two but I only have a SSD 128gb so I would like to install the bootcamp and then move the files to external ...
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How to convert late 2008 MBA SSD Drive to external enclosure?
My late 2008 MBA SSD does not work in a Samsung 2.0 USB enclosure. Tried connecting to MBP and a lenovo, does not see the drive. I am looking at another enclosure from ows- USB 2.0 Enclosure For use ...
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MBR-partitioned HDD: How to encrypt Time Machine backup?
I'm giving my external HDD to a friend tomorrow for a few days. It's partitioned via Master Boot Record and there are two partitions: a NTFS partition and my Time Machine partition. I don't want him ...
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What is the effect of permissions on external drives?
I've set the permissions on files on my removable external drives in ways that seem to make sense to preserve some degree of security. For example, for files that only I should have access to, I've ...
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The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer
I am getting a system message from Mac OS x 10.8.2 every time I power on my ICY DOCK RAID enclosure. I have followed the procedure in the manual to the letter.
Installed two new 2TB HDDs > Changed ...
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Installing & running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from an external hard drive onto my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro?
I am currently running Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my late 2010 Macbook Pro. I am perfectly fine with running Snow Leopard at present, but I feel I may be missing out on features or indeed updates ...
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Weird behaviour with external USB3 enclosure
I am having issues where an external USB3 drive(#1) is not showing up after reboot. It also doesnt not show up when holding option during boot. This external drive is a clone made with Carbon Copy ...
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OS on external SSD for performance?
I have a 2011 iMac 27", and back then opted for a HDD. Back then (and now still) I fear for the lifespan of SSDs, and hauling an iMac 27" to the store is cumbersome, so it looked the right choice.
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Move file from HDD to SSD
I've recently added an SSD drive to my Macbook, and I'm using my HDD to store my files.
Sometimes I want to move a file from my HDD to my SSD though. Whenever I try to drag it, Finder only allows me ...
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Weird issues ejecting external hard drive
I have a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive that I use for Time Machine backups (and storage of a few other large files). Recently (since Mountain Lion, I think) I've been getting the following ...
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Recover partition from NTFS drive with folder structure
I ran disk utility and looked for errors on a NTFS drive that was working fine but had been ejected abruptly after the computer was forced to shut down. After that a bunch of errors just appeared in ...
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Can I fix this problem backing up Time Machine to an external HD via Airport Extreme?
I'm using a MacBook Pro and I decided to try using my WD Passport external HD wirelessly by connecting it to my Airport Extreme. I had previously used this external HD for storing things as well as ...
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Time-Machin back-up through IP
Is it possible to use "Time-Machine" with an external hard-drive through an IP?
I have an external HD connected to a Raspberry Pi and I have installed SSH. What I am hoping to achieve is this:
I ...
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External drive mounts but doesn't appear in Finder anymore
I have an external hard drive (Drobo 2nd gen) connected to my Mac via Firewire. It used to appear on my desktop and in my Finder sidebar, but now it won't show up in either place (I do have "Hard ...
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External harddrive changes name sometimes
I have bought a new external harddrive to use with my Macbook Air running OSX 10.8.2. I renamed the device to "750GB External" and started using it, for example to store some photos which I edit with ...
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MacBook Air and external USB 3.0 hard drive
I have EEB-40S-U3 with 500GB Seagate Momentus inside and 2012 MacBook Air 13". When I connect HDD case to laptop nothing happens: I don't hear any sound from HDD itself, volumes does not appear in ...
