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Q: Really Slow Copying Files from iMac to Seagate External HDD
I have a mid-2011 iMac running El Capitan, and I'm having a problem copying over large files to my 5TB Seagate external HDDs. The copying process is so slow that it's useless to try backing up files any more. Does anyone know what I can do to overcome this problem? One thread from 2013 I found mentioned that indexing in Spotlight is the problem, but no luck so far. Anyone got ideas? Thanks!!!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Posted on Jun 19, 2016 4:20 PM
by Terence Devlin,Solvedanswer
iLife
It's very simple: the Photos library must be in a drive formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). FAT formats will not work either. Anything else risks data corruption.
Posted on Jun 20, 2016 2:49 PM