external drive

I have a 2014 Mini, the one with 2.6Ghz and a 1tb slow 5400RPM HD, so as soon as i bought it i instaled a external usb 3.0 120gb SSD merged with a fast 3.0 External HDD, creating a "fusion drive", it worked amazingly well for a long time. But after mojave update if I let my mini go to sleep...

When I attempt to copy some video files to my external hard drive, connected by USB, I am getting the following pop up.... Is there a known cause for this?? Thanks in advance!!

I am trying to copy some video files to my external hard drive by USB, on my Macbook Pro laptop, and I am getting This operation cannot be completed because of an unexpected error (error code -50).... Can anyone tell me what this means please?? Thanks in advance!! For the record, I have not...

I will be migrating off of my 2008 Mac Pro with 4 bays of drives (1 SSD / 3 HD). Yes 10 years! Had a few questions on external storage on new mac mini that perhaps others may be contemplating. 1) Any recommendations on enclosures. Is the Thunderbay 4 from OWC reliable and speedy? Do I need the...

Hello kind people of MacRumors, Today is a sad day! I got home as per usual and connected my external harddrive in order to transfer some files to it. However, it seems to be broken in a weird way. After some attempts I managed to get macOS to recognize the drive and showing it in the finder...

Hello! I’m new here, well, new to posting - I’ve availed myself of the knowledge here for some time. Thank you all, by the way! I have a question I just can’t seem to find a clear answer for, so I’m posting here. I’m about to purchase a new iMac 21” (most likely refurbished) I’m keen on a SSD...

Hello, i have a external hard drive which i was use with my window laptop without any problem, now i bought macbook pro i connected my drive, but now i cant delete any file from my drive, i thought its because of file system. how can i solved this? attached a screenshoot of one partition info.

This is a common problem with me, but generally easy to fix. My external drive becomes unplugged very often, and if it happens very quickly consecutively, my Macbook will start to see it when it's not there. This usually is resolved by me restarting my computer. But recently (I use Plex, by the...

Hey folks, I'm on vacation at the beach and wanted to play around with Mojave on my mid-2012 Core i7 MBAir (it's the oldest supported MBAir on the Mojave compatibility list). This is not my main system and I've had some filesystem corruption appear in the past 6 months -- huge #s of...

I know that, in theory, one can just drag the photos library to an external disk (just dragging across the Photos package). Photos is running fine on my Mac but it has gotten too large and I need to move it. When I try to do so I get a -43 error and it won't copy. This is on OS X 10.10.5...

I have a late '16 MBP which I use for digital photography and want to add an external drive on which I can record hard copies of raw photographs and also video footage from Canon EOS system. I figure something with more capacity than DVD might be better. Other significant variables I will...

Hello, I have an external hard drive that use to show up on my iMac (2017 High Sierra), but it has stop showing up. It lights up and I can feel that its on so I know its working. Below are the steps I took to fix it: I tried different usb ports put it doesn't show up. I plugged in my spare...

I want to delete my external 1TB USB Drive and format it with "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" and GUID Partition Scheme but the button for partitioning the drive is greyed out and non clickable. I can delete the Drive but the option to choose the Partition Scheme is not there and it automatically...

I just bought a new external hard drive and was attempting to reformat it from ExFAT to APFS encrypted. The operation failed and now the disk won't mount (thought it still appears in Disk Utility). I have tried to reformat and use first aid but neither will work. Any help or suggestions are...

Hey guys - So, ever since I updated to High Sierra, my external hard drive (MyPassport, formatted Mac OS Extended Journaled) doesn't show up in Finder but appears in Disk Utility just fine. Yes, I have external drives ticked in Finder's Preferences. After some investigation, I right...

Hello everyone! Hoping to get some help/feedback. I have a MacBook Pro Mid 2010, 500gb HD and 8gb RAM. I have a LaCie 500GB external HD that I have all my music in. I am using this HD for all my music that I use to spin DJ gigs. Have 30,000+ songs on it. Want to keep my MacBook's HD clean...

Hi all, I am trying to "Merge" a folder from one external disk to another. Both disks are formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). When I choose the "Merge" option, I get an error message ("Error Code 0"). I have read elsewhere that this is often caused by the size limitation on FAT-formatted...

WD My Passport will not mount will not mount in HighSierra 10.13.3 (17D47) I Have WD Drive Utilities 2.1.1.64 Does anyone have any suggestions of what I can do? I have looked everywhere for a solution!

I recently had my HD die after almost 10 years and took my iMac to my school's IT department (since they fix student computers for free). The HD was replaced and the Mac works fine again, but they saved the backup as a regular folder and dropped it back on the desktop. I have since moved this...

I was disappointed to find that the SanDisk iXpand can only copy photos and videos from the iPad. I’m hoping that this isn’t a limitation imposed by Apple. I’m a creative pro and need to back up large Procreate and Affinity Photo docs. Yes, I can back up to the cloud, but upload is slow over...