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Is it okay to use an external flash drive to store a Photos Library?
I'm getting an M1 MacBook Pro from my employer which only has 512 GB of flash storage (my 2018 MBP has 1 TB), so I'll need to move my 350 GB Photos library to an external drive. I know that I could ...
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Other data taking up to much space on mac, can't figure out what this other data is
I found out my company's dropbox was syncing everything to my mac, I had selective sync on but somehow this changed. I then uninstalled dropbox to stop this syncing as choosing selective sync didn't ...
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Disk Utility cannot erase USB drive (error -69877: couldn't open device)
Disk Utility (macOS Catalina 10.15.2) fails to erase my USB drive (64GB key, currently formatted in exFAT).
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME ...
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Create El Capitan installer thumb drive from Catalina
I recently got a 2019 MacBook Pro from work, and a couple of mid 2009 MacBook Pros from a yard sale. I have mostly been using Windows and Linux for the past 20 years.
I'd like to make a El Capitan ...
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Is APFS an appropriate format for flash drives ("thumb drives")?
When using Disk Utility to format a cheap slow thumb-drive (USB flash drive), is Apple File System (APFS) now the appropriate Format to choose over the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) that previously was ...
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Problems with saving to external USB Flash Storage
I have an external USB Flash storage which is generally realiable.
When editing text files on the drive I often get the message:
The document “…” could not be saved. The file doesn’t exist.
However,...
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Detect USB thumb flash drive insertions?
Is there a way to get a list of recent times when a USB thumb flash drive was inserted? I'm using Sierra.
Thanks
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Choice of Scheme when formatting USB flash drive in macOS
When using Disk Utility 16.3 with macOS Sierra to format a "thumbdrive" USB 3 Lexar flash drive (64 gigs), when I choose a Format of ‘Mac OS Extended (Journaled)’, I get a list of three Scheme items:
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Running a Windows VM from external flash drive
I'm using a MacBook Pro Retina 15" with only 256 GB SSD storage, however, for my new job I need to be able to run Windows on it. I'll need to install Visual Studio and some other tools on the Windows ...
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Re-using an ejected flash drive
I tried to properly eject a flash drive by moving it into Trash. It went up in that little puff of smoke. Now when I try to reuse the drive by plugging it back into the computer, it does not show up ...
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How is OS X able to authenticate to my router even when the disk is removed?
I removed the hard drive from my laptop (MBP 9.1, mid 2012) and started recovery mode. Once I entered recovery mode, the laptop was connected to my router (secured with WPA2), even though I had not ...
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Unable to boot up my Mac. Getting a flashing folder with a question mark
I currently own a 15 inch MacBook Pro with retina display model ( early 2013) . My Mac was working fine and all of a sudden my Mac won't boot up. I see a flashing folder with a question mark symbol on ...
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Use 256GB USB Thumb Drive as main boot drive
My iMac is very slow and I would like to start from a fresh Mavericks install. But instead of spending the time to backup my internal drive, I would rather just get a big 256GB thumb drive and install ...
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Flash drive not recognised - Unknown device: "Voyager Mini 3.0"
I have a Retina Macbook Pro and have just received 6 x Voyager Mini USB 3.0 64GB drives (as gifts for colleagues). I've tried 3 of the drives and while they work in Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu 12.04.3)...
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