Suddenly my Seagate External Drive will not show and therefore no TimeMachine Bacups have occurred.

Any ideas how. to fix this ?

Posted on Oct 28, 2022 9:23 AM

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Piqûre

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Oct 28, 2022 9:34 AM in response to rnpchgo

You should start here.

How to repair a Mac disk with Disk Utility - Apple Support

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