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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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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)?
Date: 17 Feb 2021 16:26:00 GMT
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On 2021-02-16, Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> wrote:
> In message <2IVWH.3$IzB.0@fx35.iad> 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.
>
> I am going to guess that you have not, however, created multiple
> partitions on those drives like it's 1999.

I suspect you have a BINGO there. It probably has something to do with
Ant's weird partition setup.

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