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Q: Format external hard drive for 'Photos' ?
Going to move my entire Photos Library to a new External Hard Drive which will be connected to my iMac. Any suggestions on Formatting or anything else I might want to think about? I would edit moves with this, too.
Running 10.11.3; will connect to 'OWC Mercury On The Go Pro'
Plan to just drag my Photos Library over (it's huge -- over 400 GB). Maybe create a brand new Photos Library, too, but store it all on the EXT HD.
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Macbook 2.0
Posted on Mar 29, 2016 8:54 PM
by theratter,Solvedanswer
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It should be partitioned and formatted for use on your Mac:
- Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.
- After Disk Utility loads select the external hard drive (out-dented entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the side list. Click on the Partition or Erase tab in the Disk Utility toolbar. Use the adjustable Pie chart to set the number of partitions if you want more than one.
- In the drop down panel set the partition scheme to GUID. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
- Click on the Apply button and wait Done button to activate.
Posted on Mar 29, 2016 9:02 PM