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macOS incorrectly computing available SSD space
I noticed the other day that my M2 MacBook Air with 1TB of storage was showing less space available under System Settings than I expected I was using.
After thoroughly combing through my files, and ...
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Using rsync to merge two source directories
I have my photos on an external disk, which I back up to my server by manually running a script that uses rsync. This script ensures that my external disk and my backup are in sync, which means ...
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Is it possible to reformat macOS APFS external hard drive to remove case sensitive option WITHOUT losing existing data?
Disk Utility is telling me that I formatted an external USB drive as APFS encrypted case sensitive (I actually don't remember electing the case sensitive option but I'm not going to argue :)
I use ...
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how do I encrypt an already existing external drive that I have been using for time machine backups?
I have an external drive that I formatted with APFS a long time ago and I use it for time machine backups. I am currently using Monterey 12.6 on my Mac book pro
I would like to 'switch to' encryption ...
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How do I determine the current blocksize of an APFS filesystem and is it possible to change?
Documentation for APFS is sparse and unhelpful. I'm on a MacBook Pro and trying to make IO requests more efficient in VMs, currently qemu disk image is using a block size of 16k, and the xfs ...
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External Drive Not Showing up Anywhere
I have a Lacie Rugged Drive I'm having issues with. It will continue to sound like it is starting up but won't mount. I can see it listed on my mac under the system report but it will not show up ...
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How can I partition a new external HD as a Time Machine backup AND also for manual copy/paste drag/drop on macOS Monterey 12.4?
I have an older 3TB drive from the same manufacturer and that drive has 1 partition (Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)) which is both a Time Machine backup AND it also allows me to copy/...
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HFS+ Hard Drive not booting anymore recovery using TestDisk on macOS
I've had a broken external drive: Western Digital - WD Element 4To, for a long while and I finally took the courage to do some research to fix the problem using TestDisk.
But, I think I hit a wall.
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Backup iCloud files to an external hard drive?
What are my options for backing up every file on my iCloud to an (exFAT) external hard disk?
Right now I have more files on iCloud than space on my Mac internal hard drive.
Copying folders from the ...
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How to mount a ddrescue image if no partition is recognized?
On macOS Ventura 13.1, I successfully rescued a corrupt, not mountable disk (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) via ddrescue:
ddrescue -v -f -n /dev/disk3s2 /Volumes/emptyhd/hd.dmg ~/logfile.log
After some ...
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Recover corrupted external hard drive on Mac OS
I have a Western Digital My Passport 4TB hard drive which has recently become corrupted. The hard drive is neither able to mount, nor does it show up on Disk Utility (of Mac OS) or third-party data ...
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How to restore wheel group on macOS sierra 10.12.6
I stupidly deleted wheel group under info in Macintosh HD. Then Everything on my desktop disappeared, I had no access to anything. It was a blank canvas. I turned it off manually, and then when I ...
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Find and open limited number of files across several external hard drives
I have 11 external hard drives containing thousands of videos. In my lobby I need to select a random 100 or so to open and play so that a new set is playing every day. I have used programs like Find ...
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Is is better to partition or create a new volume to keep and separate data from the core system in macOS?
I am new on macOS and I want to split disk to into two parts in order to keep my data files in the new part and just in case I need to reinstall my macOS. To prevent my files to be deleted.
For this ...
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External Harddrive: Compatible Partitions types
I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let ...
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How to recover Mac OS 9 data off of a failed hard drive
A while ago I used Mac OS 9 and had an external hard drive which failed.
I want to recover my data, but am unsure of the best way to do that.
I got this cable: “SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 Adapter, FIDECO USB ...
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Accessing multi partition USB hard drive on MacOS
I'm having problem accessing a healthy USB hard drive on MacOS. The HD is specially partitioned to have
EFI
5T ExFat
diskutil list output
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
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Mac OS doesn't spin down drive despite fstab
I have a drive which has 2 partitions (GUID):
macOS - Data -> HFS
Windows - Data -> NTFS
I don't want to have those partitions mounted by default so I added them on fstab to ignore them on boot ...
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How to compare two hard drives (or folder) to find missing files in one of them?
I'm on macOS and, for context, I have one main hard drive that should include all my files (and yes, it's backed up with redundancy). And I have many other smaller hard drives that I have used over ...
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Does my MacOS internal drive partitioning scheme look correct after recovery?
I recently had to recover Monterey on my Macbook Pro because I lost my Macintosh HD for some odd reason. Anyway after reinstalling Monterey in recovery mode, my partition scheme looks like this:
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How do I consolidate container disks to my main volume?
I am using MacOs Big Sur (11.3) and recently removed my dual-boot data, hoping to use the storage on my main volume instead. However, once I did this, it left behind APFS container disks. How do I ...
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How to convert HFS+ partition to APFS on Mac?
After struggling with deleting Ubuntu from my Mac alongside with macOS, after deleting EFI volume it became free and unused. How can I convert it to APFS again and include that in my HD storage?
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Install original ssd in in place of the DVD drive?
I have a MacBock Pro 2012 no retina. Would like to move my 500 crucial ssd to dvd drive and insert a hybrid HDD as data storage into the drive where the SSD is now.
I bought this:
To replace SSD I ...
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Unable to use free space shown by diskutil in macOS
I have a 2TB external drive (disk2) that used to have a volume (disk2s4) and two APFS containers (disk2s3 and disk2s2). I removed one of those volumes (500GB disk2s2) thinking I could then resize the ...
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Is there any way to get hard disk temperature via the terminal in mac os
I wanted to know how to monitor the temperature of your disk without using a 3rd party applications and using the terminal instead. Since there are applications that do this, there has be a way to ...
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How to rename a file with a : on a MacBook?
I'm accessing a Windows HDD from my MacBook (local network). The HDD has a file with a : in it, which is not a valid character on both Windows and Mac. I wanted to rename the file from my Mac since it ...
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Remove "virtual" volumes from macOS Catalina after Big Sur beta?
I have played around with macOS Big Sur for a few weeks but I decided to downgrade to Catalina. Big Sur handles volumes a bit differently and creates a virtual volume - Data volume. The interesting ...
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How to merge empty partitions to main partition without data loss in main in macOS?
I tried to install Windows in my MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) having macOS Mojave. Tried without the bootcamp assistant as directed in the link -
https://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/...
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Encrypted external drive accessible w/o password after backup/restore
I've got a 4TB LaCie Rugged drive that I want to use as my main encrypted backup drive for my Mac (Mojave).
Previously I was using a 2TB WD My Passport drive and I wanted to transfer all content (Time ...
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why cant i change the size of the time machine partition on my external drive?
i have 2 partitions on my external drive (macos high sierra 10.13.6).
1. time machine 1 TB
2. General storage 3 TB
i simply want to increase the size fo time machine partition to 1.5TB
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Mac is running out of disk space. How do I find out what consumes my disk space?
Today I observed that the disk space is low: only 24.6 GB of 499.9 GB are available
Then I wanted to know what the reason therefore is, because I don't have some big files on it, which could use the ...
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HFS+ encrypted external could not mount or not be repaired - OS X
I have a serious problem with my TimeMachine external 8TB Seagate.
It has been used as my TimeMachine disk. Did a full backup, installed lastest OS X from scratch and the external disk will no longer ...
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Cloning HDD to SSD without Free Space
I'm partitioning my 1TB SSD to allow me install Mountain Lion, Yosemite, and Catalina on the same drive. I'd like all my files to be on the Catalina partition, apart from specific software which only ...
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Why does an APK file size of 7.6 MB allocate 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard drive when reverse-engineered?
I have an apk file size of 7.6 MB. When I reverse-engineer this apk file through apktool, which is a reverse engineering tool for apk files, it allocates 1.36 GB on an exFAT formatted external hard ...
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How can I create a bootable Mac OS with an image of the EFI and OS partitions?
I recently installed Linux Mint on my Macbook Air, and saved my old OS to a couple disk images (The EFI and the OS). I created two partitions the exact size of the EFI and OS images on an external ...
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How do I create a bootable copy of my operating system on an external HDD?
I have a MacBook Air which I'll be installing Linux on, and want to copy the operating system to an external hard drive so I don't lose my files. I tried using Clonezilla, however it does not show up ...
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Can I boot from a hard drive which contains a copy of the entire filesystem?
I have a MacBook Air, which has a 120GB SSD. I copied the entire file system to another hard drive by just click-and-dragging the root directory. Is it possible boot from this hard drive? I know I can'...
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Reverting a hard drive encryption process on Mac stuck on X percent
I have an external HDD used for both storage and Time Machine backups (by "storage" I mean non time-machine files are found on that HDD as well, outside of the "backups.backupdb" folder)
After not ...
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Catalina bricked my MacBook Pro
I have a MacBook Pro 2019 13", I tried to update it to the new Catalina 10.15. And the hell begun!
When the update started the screen went completely black, so I thought it needs me to press the ...
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Can't copy files from NTFS to macOS
So, recently, my computer ran into a problem, and I decided to reset it, but before that, I need to back up onto a hard drive.
However, the only hard drive I can find that has the free space ...
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Get Access to unlock OSX Harddrive
A user is locked out and we have some passwords to try for his Harddrive so we can unlock single user mode however we can't seem to find a way to get to that stage.
Recovery mode works but we need to ...
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Disk shows many times in Finder sidebar
On our build server, every build there are new copies of the disk in the sidebar (see pic, there are about 100 appearances of Hsierra).
What command in the build scripts should I look for that might ...
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Cannot mount HFS+ drive on Mac 10.14
I have an external drive in HFS+ format. However, the disk could not be mounted (i.e. not shown up in Finder) to my Mac (v10.14). Here are the diskutil result and what I tried.
> diskutil list
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Mac Error Code -50
been tinkering with an old Mac Mini I received (2010.... I guess it’s not that old but still... thought would be a nice idea to just dump Linux on it; not a knock on Mac since I do have a mbp and it ...
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Allocation unit for exFAT on macOS
I've spent the last few days researching how to get exFAT formatted drives to work on macOS without finding any authoritative information on the subject. Many seem to throw their hands up and declare ...
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Some files lost during upgrade
I was trying to upgrade my mid 2012 MacbookPro from High Sierra to Mojave.
While it was installing, status bar was stuck for a long time. After that, I forced restart with pressing I/O button. ...
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Mount an external hard drive if connected to the same folder
I am using MacOS Mojave 10.14.3, and I want to achieve something similar to this.
In Ubuntu I have this configuration to be able to mount an external disk to the same folder using its UUID. In this ...
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EFI partition of the HFS formatted external hard drive won't mount in macOS
General Description of the issue
Initial Cause: When I was copying some files to the external drive, the copying operation froze half way. I couldn't eject the drive so I just unplugged it.
What ...
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Issues cloning MacOS drive into smaller one
I am trying to move my OS X install to a smaller disk because I plan to move to another OS, but this is taking much longer than planned so I hope someone can help me here.
The SSD that now holds OS X ...
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How do I transfer operating system Mac OS Yosemite to external hard drive?
I want to take the operating system from internal drive and copy it
to an external drive that I can boot into. I am doing this so I can
use disc utility from external system and run disc utilities on ...
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