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Sep 3, 2016 3:13 PM in response to Torlifeby Niel,If the drive is formatted as NTFS, you need to install a product capable of writing to that format which is compatible with El Capitan. Older versions of those products aren't.
If the drive uses a different format, choose the First Aid function.
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Sep 3, 2016 3:27 PM in response to Nielby Torlife,Thank you! It is formatted to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If I run First Aid will it erase anything?
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Sep 3, 2016 3:28 PM in response to Torlifeby Niel,Not unless a problem occurs. Back your data up first.
A drive may fail at any time.
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Sep 3, 2016 3:42 PM in response to Nielby Torlife,It is backed up but I am working on a time restraint so I'm trying to avoid having to go the route of reformatting and then putting on the footage back on the external drive. From your experience is it possible that if the external hard drive is read only and I run first aid that, that alone would make it read/write and usable on both el Capitan and Yosemite?
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Sep 3, 2016 3:46 PM in response to Torlifeby Niel,If the Disk Utility is able to fix the issue, yes. If not, no.
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Sep 3, 2016 4:06 PM in response to Nielby Torlife,Okay and then if it needs to "repair" that is when it will erase/format the hard drive?
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Sep 3, 2016 4:10 PM in response to Torlifeby Niel,Not unless a further problem occurs. You should still have a backup.
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