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24 January 2018

Mac and External drives

I wanted to use a USB disk for a Mac backup.

Plugged the disk in and found that it was 'read only'.

I plugged the disk back into my Windows PC and created an ExFat partition.

On plugging back into the Mac it was able to write to the new partition.


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