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Hello, somehow inspite of Terminal methods and USB refresh apps (for weeks, many man hours), macOS Monterey won't mount any external drives (it does mount the internal drives), now I plan to burn my older macOS (like High Sierra which has been the most stable macOS by far) installer as a...

Hello Apple and Mac friends. There seems to a major bug with macOS Monterey whereby it doesn't mount .dmg .iso and images when you double click it, it also doesn't mount the external volumes, like USB external drives or USB flashdrives. This wasn't a problem in Big Sur or Catalina. I'm using...

I compared the internal 10 Gbit/s network adapter of my base model Mac Studio (Max) with an external Thunderbolt 3 10 Gbit/s network adapter from Sonnet. Internal: External: The difference seems to be a more conservative power ramp up (take a look at the beginning and the end of the graph)...

I am doing photo and video editing as well as some 3d (Blender) and will be updating from a 2010 Mac Pro. In the Mac Pro I use a dedicated 1TB SATA SSD as a scratch disk for caches and such. I was taught that it's always best to keep a scratch disk that is physically separate from the system...

Hi all, I have been having issues with my external hard drive lately. I have a 2018 15” Macbook Pro running Monterey. My external HD has become extremely slow when loading, opening, transferring files, etc. but runs flawlessly when I use it at school on bigger iMacs. I have tried resetting the...

I hooked up my portable hard drive (USB 3.0) to my M1 iPad Pro and it’s almost pointless to try and view any of the photos of videos I have stored on it. Sometimes I can open folders and view thumbnails and open some files, but most of the time I get ”Loading…” messages and the Files app locking...

Hi. Is still a pain to upgrade Window to Go with Windows 11 (you can easily create now, Windows to Go with third-party apps). Last experience with Windows to Go is it won't upgrade to the next iteration of Windows, so I had to go back to Boot Camp. It's better if Windows is on its own separate...

Hey folks, I'm probably going to be very disappointed here, but does anyone know of an app that would allow selecting/importing photos from an external USB-C connected card/camera much like using the Photos app, BUT that features LARGE thumbnails or the ability to see a given image in large...

Hello MacRumors friends. What happens if you remove the hardisk of a Fusion drive and made it into an external drive? Would your User folders be there (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc.) and will it be readable? I plan to remove both the Apple SSD and the hardisk of the 2TB fusion drive in a...

Long story short, I want to buy a Mac Mini, but I already have some external SSD. Should I spend some money on more internal SSD, or go with less and use the external one? How much of a diffetence is between the speed?

Dear all, On a Macbook M1, (OSX Big Sur)is it possible to install Monterey on an external usb-c SSD and then use that as boot drive for the M1 ? Anyone having experience with this ? Kind Regards.

Ever since upgrading to Big Sur 11.4, my M1 mini has been flickering in certain scenarios with my display (Dell S2721QS.) I haven't noticed it pre-11.4, though I heard others were having M1 "flickering" issues since launch. I can't tell from the descriptions if they're the same as mine. For...

Our 2018 MAC MINI SG/3.0GHZ 6C/8GB/512GB can be very slow when using the Cintiq 22 inch with Photoshop and animation programs such as ToonBoom Animate etc. A friend suggests we buy an exterior graphics card, plugging it in to one of its Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports. Is this a good idea and can...

Hello there! Hoping to get an answer about a couple questions I have with CCC. I plan to migrate to it to use as my backup solution. I have long just made a literal drag-and-drop copy of my most important external drives to a hard drive every quarter or so as "backup," but I've decided that I...

I’ve got a difficult one... (I joined the forum simply to ask this question so I’m hoping you all can help me!) I have a 2017 5k iMac 580 8gb 3.8 i5 with 2Tb Fusion Drive that I upgraded. I put in a 4Tb Samsung 870 SSD, a 2Tb Samsung nvme and a 4.2ghz i7 After installation, everything worked...

Made the jump to an M1 Mini from an aging windows PC for my daily driver, and this caught my eye when I plugged in my external SSD that I use to store my music collection. On my PC, it says I have 170 GB free of 465 GB total storage - 48,434 total files. 290 GB total usage on disk. On my new...

I use iCloud for syncing and short-term backups in the Photos app. I move all my photos and videos to an external hard drive for archiving yearly. In previous years, I would allow the Photos app for macOS auto sync and download all original files to a library on an external drive. I’ve been...

Hey, Some people have been saying that the new macs will only support one external display, but there's been no clear information whether that includes an iPad in sidecar mode or not. Can anyone with the new M1 mac check that and confirm? I've really been wanting to get one, but if having an...

Is there a way to to hide most USB hard drives on the desktop but have thumb drives or SD cards show up?

Hi Hope someone can help. I have an iPad Pro 2017 11”, plus and adapter with UHD 4K HDMI output capability. ( see screenshot) I recently bought a FHD 1080 DELL monitor and expected at least the screen to be filled top and bottom with no spaces, obviously sides would have spaces due to aspect...