My old external hard drive became read-only, so I bought a new one. Reformatted it to work with my Macbook. It seems to work all right with Time Machine, I can't seem to transfer anything from the old drive, not even when I copy folders/files to my Macbook first. The format for my Mac hard drive is listed as APFS. The external drive format is APFS (case-sensitive, Encrypted). Is there a solution for this?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6
CeeBee33 wrote:
My old external hard drive became read-only, so I bought a new one. Reformatted it to work with my Macbook. It seems to work all right with Time Machine,
I can't seem to transfer anything from the old drive, not even when I copy folders/files to my Macbook first.
The format for my Mac hard drive is listed as APFS. The external drive format is APFS (case-sensitive, Encrypted). Is there a solution for this?
Did you try running First Aid on your old failing drive—
Disk Utility only reads the Directory area of the drive, and checks it for self-consistency. It does not read any data area blocks.
Disk Utility.app> run the First Aid
If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.
ref: How to repair a Mac disk with Disk Utility
How to repair a Mac disk with Disk Utility - Apple Support
An external drive formatted and used for Time Machine can not be written to other than with Time Machine.
Use Time Machine to back up - Apple Support
moving folders to new external hard drive
