External hard drive not visable with 2023 24-in iMac running Seqoia 15.5

when first setting up the computer the hard drive was listed in the sidebar of finder, then one day inexplicably disappeared.

iMac 24″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jun 23, 2025 1:17 PM

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Posted on Jun 23, 2025 8:40 PM

Have you tried rebooting the computer?


Disconnect all other external drives, then run the following command in the Terminal and post the output here:

diskutil  list  external



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Jul 7, 2025 9:38 AM in response to HWTech

Was that procedure you linked for viewing APFS Snapshots supposed to be initiated on my original iMac in order to find missing data and files? My new 24-inch Mac shows zero APFS Snapshots in the Disk Utility table on the bottom of the page, I think because because there are none since TM was never set up on it, due to The MyBook External hard drive where TM backups were saved from my old iMac is no longer visible in Finder, although I found and specified the last full backup from it when originally setting up my new Mac.

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External hard drive not visable with 2023 24-in iMac running Seqoia 15.5

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