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| Started by | Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> |
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| First post | 2025-09-17 18:28 +0000 |
| Last post | 2025-09-18 07:04 +0000 |
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Backing up to Crucial X8 External Dirve Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> - 2025-09-17 18:28 +0000
Re: Backing up to Crucial X8 External Dirve Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-09-17 20:50 +0000
Re: Backing up to Crucial X8 External Dirve Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> - 2025-09-18 09:46 +0000
Re: Backing up to Crucial X8 External Dirve Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2025-09-18 07:04 +0000
| From | Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2025-09-17 18:28 +0000 |
| Subject | Backing up to Crucial X8 External Dirve |
| Message-ID | <mj0cupFma59U1@mid.individual.net> |
I'm using a MacBook laptop for which I purchased an external drive, a Crucial X8 of 1TB capacity. Every time I try to back up to the external disc, the software reports that the crucial X8 is not available. The disc shows up in disc utilities and is partitioned to format AFPS. I feel I must be doing something very wrong, but I'm unable to identify it. Any help greatly appreciated Peter -- The address shown on this posting is false. If you need to contact me then wirte to: peterATpfjamesDOTcoDOTuk
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| From | Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2025-09-17 20:50 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <10af6ua$3euvg$1@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #181891 |
Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using a MacBook laptop for which I purchased an external drive, a Crucial > X8 of 1TB capacity. > > Every time I try to back up to the external disc, the software reports that > the crucial X8 is not available. > The disc shows up in disc utilities and is partitioned to format AFPS. > I feel I must be doing something very wrong, but I'm unable to identify it. > Any help greatly appreciated Is this for Time Machine? If so you need to make your drive a TM target before it'll work. https://support.apple.com/en-us/104984
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| From | Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> |
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| Date | 2025-09-18 09:46 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mj22mrFb1cU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #181896 |
On 17 Sep 2025 at 21:50:18 BST, "Chris" <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote: > Peter James <peterf@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm using a MacBook laptop for which I purchased an external drive, a Crucial >> X8 of 1TB capacity. >> >> Every time I try to back up to the external disc, the software reports that >> the crucial X8 is not available. >> The disc shows up in disc utilities and is partitioned to format AFPS. >> I feel I must be doing something very wrong, but I'm unable to identify it. >> Any help greatly appreciated > > Is this for Time Machine? If so you need to make your drive a TM target > before it'll work. > https://support.apple.com/en-us/104984 Many thanks, and thank you for posting the Apple support link. That worked to treat. Thank you again, Peter -- The address shown on this posting is false. If you need to contact me then wirte to: peterATpfjamesDOTcoDOTuk
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| From | Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> |
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| Date | 2025-09-18 07:04 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mj1p8rFta0tU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #181891 |
On 17. Sep 2025 at 20:28:41 CEST, "Peter James" <peterf@gmail.com> wrote: > Every time I try to back up to the external disc, the software reports that > the crucial X8 is not available. Which Software? Time Machine or something else? Where is it plugged in? Directly into the Mac or into some dock?
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