I have been adding all my photos to an external hard drive. I need to be able to run some apps on those pictures but nothing will work. I don't know if the external drive is encrypted but when I look at settings I do not have that box checked.
MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
You're using the Time Machine drive for a working drive with those photos. That's not permitted. You need to put those image file on an external HD that is formatted as shown in this screenshot:
A Time Machine drive does not allow normal file access like a working drive does
You're using the Time Machine drive for a working drive with those photos. That's not permitted. You need to put those image file on an external HD that is formatted as shown in this screenshot:
A Time Machine drive does not allow normal file access like a working drive does
Thank you! This is frustrating because I specifically purchased this drive for photos and nothing else. Is there anyway to prevent me from having to do a month's worth of work (transferring files from cd's and so on) to make this drive accessible? If not, I need some idiot proof directions on how to set up an external drive for pics.
tinabreck Said:
”This is frustrating because I specifically purchased this drive for photos and nothing else.”
Rather than going about formatting it, and losing all your TM backups, just get a new hard drive to use separately for these Pics and all else.
My last post described what you need to do to make a drive available for use as a working drive. Get a new drive that's big enough, reformat before every using as shown in the screenshot of my last post and copy the photos from the TM drive to the new drive.
I suggest one of these drives for reliability and performance: OWC Mercury Elite Pro.
OR (the best option in my opinion), get a OWC drive that's 2 -3 times the size of your internal boot drive plus your My Passport drive.
Then do the following:
1 - format the OWC drive according to the screenshot.
2 - copy the image files from the My Passport drive to the OWC drive.
3 - erase and reformat the My Passport drive according to the screenshot.
4 - copy the image files back to the My Passport drive.
5 - erase the OWC drive and set it up as your Time Machine backup drive.
External hard drive to be uneencrypted
