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Macintosh HD - Data

Why do I have 3 Macintosh HD - Data disk and how many do I need, also can I delete them.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Jun 9, 2021 9:14 PM

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Posted on Jun 10, 2021 9:14 PM

There is no need to erase and reinstall. Read through the thread here and follow the suggestions by Barney:


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252051761


And to be clear: You should have a Macintosh HD volume and one Macintosh HD - data volume. The first one contains the OS and all system files and the Data volume contains your User folder and all other files/data.

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Jun 10, 2021 9:14 PM in response to Brennan_Gardner

There is no need to erase and reinstall. Read through the thread here and follow the suggestions by Barney:


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252051761


And to be clear: You should have a Macintosh HD volume and one Macintosh HD - data volume. The first one contains the OS and all system files and the Data volume contains your User folder and all other files/data.

Macintosh HD - Data

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