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Use this to tag for questions about the USB interface or devices connected via USB.

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External USB hard drive unmounts itself after an hour or so left idle

is interested in the "other thread" I alluded to, and hasn't already found it, see: Is there an easy way to automatically schedule a move of files matching a certain pattern from a user directory to a USB
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External USB hard drive unmounts itself after an hour or so left idle

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 hard drive (Seagate). …
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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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Unfortunately, I also discovered that the spontaneously disconnecting USB drive wasn't just from the box going to sleep: it seems that the drive is starting to flake out, and the box going to sleep was … Then again, that's why I'm backing up to two separate USB drives. …
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Is there an easy way to automatically schedule a move of files matching a certain pattern fr...

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 them from where they were initially placed onto external USB
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