Sonoma damages external hard disks

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Sonoma damages external hard disks

After installing Sonoma all external hard disks formatted with Exfat have connection problems. A hard disk with an important project turned out to be invisible and unreadable, causing a month-long delay in work and serious damage. The problem caused health damage to an elderly collaborator. Final cut x has media connection problems and is impossible to perform a good read to create an Aaf file. This is unacceptable. A customer pays to suffer work-related injuries. I don't know if I continue to work with Apple.

iMac 21.5″

Posted on Jan 9, 2024 2:55 AM

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Answer 1

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Jan 9, 2024 4:27 AM in response to francesco_85

As an experiment

I have a 2 GB USB Pendrive that was formatted on a MS Windows Computer using the exFat / MBR Partition Map

Directly connect to my M2 Mac Mini via the USB Port

Immediately received a Pop Up Warning that this drive was not readable and do I what to Reinitialize the drive - choose no.

It did appear in Disk Utilities.

Chose to Erase the same Drive using exFat / MBR

All is good again.

The point being, that macOS does not always play niece with MS Windows formatted drives especially when using a Non Native formatting scheme like Fat or exFat

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Answer 2

Jan 9, 2024 5:17 AM in response to francesco_85

> Final cut

You should not use ExFAT or FAT to store an FCP library bundle, or any other Mac bundles like Photos. It is best to use APFS (SSD) or Mac OS Extended (HDD).

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