I just bought brand new Samsung 870 QVO and formatted into APFS. I have another old hard drive also formatted as APFS. But I couldn’t transfer files between them. Does anyone know why is this happening and is there anyway to fix this?
thank you so much!!!
Mac mini, macOS 11.0
You've designated that drive a Time Machine drive. That's the issue. TM wants all the volume for itself. If you want to also store other material on it then you'll need to partition it.
See the screen shot - Look for Scandisk in picture - Just below the name it shows Master Boot Record as partition scheme. For you external drive in question it should be formatted APFS and change the Scheme in drop down box the GUID ( if required )
It maybe formatted APFS but what is the Partition Scheme? To work needs GUID Partition Scheme
Kuan Yu Lan wrote:
...can’t copy and paste files to my external SSD?
I just bought brand new Samsung 870 QVO and formatted into APFS. I have another old hard drive also formatted as APFS. But I couldn’t transfer files between them. Does anyone know why is this happening and is there anyway to fix this?
thank you so much!!!
How about drag and drop (?)
Thank you Phillips, I checked the information with the drive and under the scheme section it says GUID Partition Map. Does that mean it's on GUID Partition Scheme? Or it's because I didn't save any files before I use it as a TimeMachine back up drive?
If you can let me know where to check GUID Partition Scheme will be amazing.
Thank you so much :)
Hi Leroydouglas, drag and drop is also not working at the moment :(
Is there potential problem that caused this?
Thank you :)
I couldn't see the drop down box for changing the GUID.. sorry I'm very new to this :(
Thank you so much!!! I think I know what to do now :)
Once I partition it, part of the drive can write now ~
Why I can’t copy and paste files to my external SSD?
