Just bought a new external hard drive (LaCie Big2) and want to copy all my files (7 Tb) to the new HDD.
i'm on Sonoma 14.4.1
Mac Studio (2022)
If you have a clone backup utility (Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!), you could use it to copy folder trees from one drive to another to another. I know that Carbon Copy Cloner has the ability to back up from and to individual folders, and I would assume that SuperDuper! does, also.
First, before you do anything, use Disk Utility to ERASE the new drive, to make certain it is a MacOS drive. default from the maker is usually Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) which is only writeable on a Mac using third-party Utilities.
Once you have done that. there is no need to have the drive-makers utilities installed. They will work hard (but more slowly) to create a MacOS volume inside a SparseBundle Disk Image file, inside the inherently NTFS drive.
Then try using Finder to drag and drop the top-level folders from one drive to the other. if it refuses, reduce the size and do multiple groups instead.
How to copy very large number of files from one drive to another???
