- #Open partition external hard drive mac how to#
- #Open partition external hard drive mac for mac#
- #Open partition external hard drive mac pro#
- #Open partition external hard drive mac code#
- #Open partition external hard drive mac plus#
#Open partition external hard drive mac for mac#
Under such a circumstance, what you need is a professional NTFS driver for Mac like iBoysoft NTFS for Mac. Because you can read NTFS drive on Mac only and you can't write to this drive normally in this case.
#Open partition external hard drive mac plus#
Many famous external drives like Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch and WD My Passport are pre-formatted with NTFS, as the Windows default file system. However, the NTFS format is a hassle for users who need to use the same external drive on both Mac and Windows. This method suits you most if you just want to use it occasionally on different OS or don’t want to lose files on your external drive by formatting.
#Open partition external hard drive mac how to#
How to make external hard drive compatible with Mac and PC without formatting(No data loss)īefore you move to format external drives, you should know there is a more feasible way to make your external drives compatible with your Mac and PC. How to partition external hard drive to make it compatible with Mac and PC Which is the best format for external hard drive for Mac and PC How to format external hard drive for Windows PC How to format external hard drive for Mac How to make external hard drive compatible with Mac and PC without formatting This is an external drive ( /dev/disk2 "external, physical") with a capacity of 1TB, split into two partitions ( /dev/disk3, /dev/disk4), one APFS ( /dev/disk3 "synthesized", named "Apple") and one HFS ( /dev/disk4 "external, virtual", named "TM" for my Time Machine backups).ĭepending on how you partitioned the external drive, it should either look very similar or even shorter, but there should always be two drives, a "physical" one, and a "synthesized" or "virtual" one.Though the default hard disk file system (also known as format) of Windows and Mac are different, there should be some ways to format an external hard drive to make it compatible with your Mac or PC. It should look something like this: /dev/disk2 (external, physical):Ģ: Apple_APFS Container disk3 872.0 GB disk2s2Ġ: APFS Container Scheme - +872.0 GB disk3
#Open partition external hard drive mac code#
Try " sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots / " (or deletelocalsnapshots to remove them).Ĭould you do a diskutil list and post the results here (as a code block)?
You might want and delete those local copies - if there are any, that is. This adds to the time the drive is "accessed" although from a users perspective, it is not used. To your local drive, temporarily, which are moved to the external drive as soon as it becomes available again. Sounds lame, I know, but maybe it fixes whatever's wrong with this drive.Īs a side note: When you unplug the Time Machine drive, Time Machine continues to make backups.
Is there anything on the drive that you have no copy of? Otherwise why not format it from scratch? Then try ejecting and connecting a few time to make sure things work as expected before making a new Time Machine backup. Seems there is something seriously wrong. That said, for the little data which you mention, it should've finished after a few minutes. Indexing depends on the amount of data and the drives speed and the load of the Mac at the time the index is built almost impossible to guess. I would be very glad for any ideas or tips on how to resolve this! Thanks in advance.
18:35:42.596 mdutil mdutil disabling Spotlight: /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/TimeMachine -> kMDConfigSearchLevelFSSearchOnlyĪnd I still can't safely eject the hard drive because of the mds process. System/Volumes/Data/Volumes/TimeMachine: sudo mdutil -Ei off "/Volumes/TimeMachine" Secondly I tried stopping the indexing with the terminal by entering the following and got the also following result. Then I tried stopping spotlight from indexing them, first by adding the volume to settings->spotlight->privacy but it stated that I can't add a Volume that is used for Time Machine Backups. I tried force quitting them while the eject process was going on but that didn't help. I figured out that the processes "mds" and "mds_store" keep the hard drive from being ejected safely. I tried completely removing the volume from TimeMachine and stopping automated backups but that didn't help. It always states that some program is still using it. Now I have the problem that I can't eject this hard drive without shutting down the Mac.
#Open partition external hard drive mac pro#
I'm running MacOS 12.1 on my 14" MacBook Pro and I currently use an external hard drive, that is connected to my dock as an TimeMachine Backup (so that it backups every hour or so while I'm working at my desk).