I have storage drive with room for 5 TB. When I went to load a large music library file to use with my Mac mini, it said that storage drive neede needed to be compatible with Mac OS systems. How do I do that? Thanks
How is the external drive currently formatted?
Control click on it’s icon and select Get Info
macOS can not write to a windows NTFS formatted external drive without using special software.
You can store music files and albums on a FAT-32 or eX-FAT formatted drive to share with both macOS and Windows.
If you want to move your entire music library intact, then the external drive needs to be formatted for macOS.
see > Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Caution: reformatting the external drive, will erase all of data that is currently stored on it.
How is the external drive currently formatted?
Control click on it’s icon and select Get Info
macOS can not write to a windows NTFS formatted external drive without using special software.
You can store music files and albums on a FAT-32 or eX-FAT formatted drive to share with both macOS and Windows.
If you want to move your entire music library intact, then the external drive needs to be formatted for macOS.
see > Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Caution: reformatting the external drive, will erase all of data that is currently stored on it.
maybe the external hd is formatted to some non compatible filesystem maybe say ntfs or the likes
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you should be able to use disk util to change the partition to something more macos friendly
Thanks so much. I’ll check into that a little later today after work. And get back with the results. I appreciate your help.
Working with my storage drive and a new Mac mini
