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A storage device attached to a computer, but not enclosed within the computer's casing
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What is currently a good way to format and encrypt an external drive so that it's usable on ...
I've looked at the threads on this, noting that there doesn't appear to be any new discussion since 2019.
I would like to be able to encrypt an external drive, but still have it readable across multip …
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External USB hard drive unmounts itself after an hour or so left idle
This is in connection with the other thread I started today.
I have two external USB drives plugged into a Mac Mini (late 2014), running Yosemite. One of them is an SSD (SanDisk), and the other is a h …
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External USB hard drive unmounts itself after an hour or so left idle
I think I may have stumbled upon the solution (wish I'd followed up on the third question in the first comment sooner):
Letting the system put the drive to sleep wasn't having a side effect of causing …
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External USB hard drive unmounts itself after an hour or so left idle
As it happens, just today, I discovered independent evidence that the Seagate is starting to flake out. So while the sleeping was a trigger, it wasn't the root cause. Time to replace the device.
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Is there an easy way to automatically schedule a move of files matching a certain pattern fr...
Earlier today, I found something:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/39062525/3654526
It seems that once I changed the generic shebang to one specifying a shell
(from #! to #!/bin/bash) and changed the time …
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Is there an easy way to automatically schedule a move of files matching a certain pattern fr...
I'm looking to automate a backup process that involves transporting backup files (with names in the form "*.savf") first onto a Mac Mini (running Yosemite), and then, once they're on the Mini, moving …
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