Having trouble finding a USB drive that supports OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Need recommendation asap please. Mac is early 2012.
iMac 21.5″, OS X 10.11
Hello. Standard USB 2.0 or 3.0 thumb drives should be compatible with that release of OS X and your iMac. Are you running into an error while trying to plug in a standard flash drive? Newer flash drives may not list OS X 10.11.6 as a compatible version of OS X given its age, but they should still work as expected.
Hello. Standard USB 2.0 or 3.0 thumb drives should be compatible with that release of OS X and your iMac. Are you running into an error while trying to plug in a standard flash drive? Newer flash drives may not list OS X 10.11.6 as a compatible version of OS X given its age, but they should still work as expected.
Hello. Time Machine stating that it needs to erase and reformat the LaCie drive is normal. What most likely happened is that the LaCie drive was formatted at the factory with a filesystem that is not compatible with Time Machine. Your Mac will need to reformat it to a supported filesystem type before it can be used for Time Machine backups. I would go ahead and erase and reformat the drive as requested by Time Machine and go from there. After doing so, it should work fine for your backups.
Yes I'm having trouble. Bought a hard drive that was supposed to work, and it didn't. Just bought another, a LaCie; documentation says it supports everything from 10.6 forward but note on the side of the box says 10.12. I ordered these online, with 15% restocking fee so I'm reluctant to even open the LaCie box.
Hello. What happened with the hard drive that didn't work? Did your Mac display any error messages or indications as to why this drive was not functioning as expected? Did your Mac seem to recognize the drive in Disk Utility? OS X 10.11 is an older release, but should still be able to handle external hard drives.
An error message appeared stating that the disk could not work on OS 10.11.6. The Mac did not recognize the disk in Disk Utility.
In the meantime I opened the package for the LaCie and am trying it. I can use the backup software included but I thought I'd try TimeMachine again. TimeMachine reports it needs to erase and reformat the LaCie. So it looks like it will work with the software LaCie includes, but not with TimeMachine. At lease not without reformatting. Your advice now? And thanks.
Having trouble finding a USB drive that supports OS X El Capitan 10.11.6. Need recommendation asap please. Mac is early 2012.
