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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
Subject: Re: Is it supposed to take a long time for macOS to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)?
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In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Alan Browne <Blackhole@entropy.ultimateorg> wrote:
> On 2021-02-11 04:42, Ant wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Is it supposed to take a long time for macOSes (updated Big Sur v11.x
> > and Mojave v10.4.6) to finally see an USB3 4 TB HDD's encrypted
> > partitions (macOS+Journaled and APFS)? ExFAT (no encryption) always
> > mount right away, but the other ones take like a minute or more to be
> > seen and ask me to enter their passwords to mount. This is with a month
> > old external Seagate HDD

> I have 4 USB 3, 6 TB disks attached most of the time.  On a "wake from 
> sleep" they're available in seconds.  On a re-boot or re-connect it can 
> take 10 - 20 seconds for all 4 to show in Finder[1]. They are all 
> encrypted drives.  The "password" is stored in Keychain so there is no 
> entering of the password on each connect required.

> (Catalina 10.15 ish.)

> [1] IIRC even if the volume doesn't show in Finder quickly, I believe 
> they show in Disk Utility quicker than that - but I won't stand on it.

Disk Utility app also takes a long time to show them. :/
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