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Backup

My Mac was backing up fine to an external hard drive until about a month ago. I purchased a new external hard drive and my Mac won't recognize it. How do I get this fixed so I can continue having my Mac backup to the External Hard drive.


iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 5, 2019 3:01 PM

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Posted on Jun 5, 2019 3:30 PM

What Format is the new drive, it should be HFS+ Journaled.


https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/apple-time-machine-101-seagate-style-205691en/

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