How to CREATE VOLUMES and PARTITIONS on an External Hard Drive using Disk Utility on a MAC
This video is about creating volumes and partitions on your Mac and understanding the differences between the two options. It’s always important to format any external hard drive or flash drive and these options give you further ability to organize and separate your files.
00:00 | Welcome Back!
01:56 | How to open Disk Utility on a Mac
04:12 | What is a Partition and why would I need it?
08:49 | Re-partition an existing partition
12:36 | How to create a volume on an external hard drive
13:42 | How to erase an external hard drive and start over
17:17 | Understanding Quota and Reserve Size Settings for Volumes
21:18 | How to delete a Volume or Partition
22:07 | Customize icon of external hard drives
23:45 | How to Eject your external drives
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The most thorough, comprehensive tutorial that I have ever seen. You have essentially "left no questions unanswered" in regard to Formatting, Partitioning and Creating Volumes in an Mac environment. Thanks much for sharing your expertise my friend.
@Learnwithjoel
7 ай бұрын
I really appreciate you and your kind words @rogerbeltz2370! I'm so glad my content was able to answer all of your questions! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Joel, you are an excellent educator, this video is concise, comprehensive. Thank you for taking the time to produce this video.
@Learnwithjoel
4 ай бұрын
I appreciate you and your kind words @blunderbus3702! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
I was really struggling with the concept of partitions and volumes. This was just what I needed. Thanks!
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
I certainly hope this helps you @MK1 Cortina Tony! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@gergemall
7 ай бұрын
It’s a great tutorial ❤
Simply THE BEST. Thank you Joel. You touched on all of the additional situations that I've been confused about. Other people would break this up into separate videos, and I got lost just trying to find something that addresses it all.
Great video, Joel! You made this stuff SO easy to understand for a person who's not "technically inclined."
@Learnwithjoel
2 ай бұрын
I appreciate you and your kind words @chrisweppler1977! I do my best to try to cover topic from multiple perspectives. Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
this is everything I was looking for! thanks for going into detail and touching upon the differences!!
Great explanation. Exactly what i needed for using the same hard drive to back up multiple laptops. Thank you!
Outstanding video! You just got a new subscriber sir.
@Learnwithjoel
6 күн бұрын
Thank you for your continued support @mmctro! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
perfectly explained thanks!
Excellent job! You're a very good (and thorough) teacher. Thank you.
@Learnwithjoel
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the kind words @watchaddicts1213! I appreciate you and your support! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
The International System of Units (SI) denotes (exa) as a multiplication by the sixth power of 1000 or 1018. In other words, 1 exabyte (EB) = 1018bytes = 1,0006bytes = 1000000000000000000 bytes = 1,000 petabytes = 1 million terabytes = 1 billion gigabytes. To put this into better perspective, You could fit 11 million movies in 4K format would fit comfortably inside a 1 EB storage device. To get to just a single EB would take 763 billion floppy disks or 1.5 billion CD-ROM discs, In the end data centers and large-scale computing environments that mainly use EB. (Hope this satisfies anyones curiosity)
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
I appreciate the detailed info @DoctorLo0p! I'm sure it will help someone! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Thanks so much Joel, really clearly and simply explained with great graphics. It really helped me set up and partition my new ScanDisk SSD bought to use as back-up for my MacBook Air. I also liked the extra tip for labelling the desktop icons for my drive 👍👌👏
@Learnwithjoel
Ай бұрын
You're very welcome @simonmorris8651! I appreciate you and your kind words! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
thanks you were grate. learn a lot. made very confident
Great video, thank you.
Brilliant explanation. Thank you)🙂
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Жыл бұрын
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Excellent tutorial!! Now I understand containers and volumes. Thanks for creating such a clear and understanding video.
@Learnwithjoel
6 ай бұрын
I appreciate you and your kind words @weldonf4081! I'm happy this was helpful! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Very clear. thank you
@Learnwithjoel
2 ай бұрын
You're very welcome @sfetcucristian2949. I appreciate the kind words! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
This video is an excellent video where you can find all the answers you are looking for on this subject ,Thanks
@Learnwithjoel
9 ай бұрын
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Very informative, thanks!
@Learnwithjoel
6 ай бұрын
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Excellent!!!
woohoo thank u for the tut❤❤
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10 ай бұрын
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Great video
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10 ай бұрын
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Great content mate 👌🏼 i have a question For macHD itself ao you recommend volume or partition??
Question/Statement: I'm finding myself a bit confused here. You never actually explained, (or maybe I missed it) what the benefit is to having "separate rooms in the house" really is... Only that, you prefer it that way. Essentially, by that logic, isn't a folder the same exact thing as a partition then? I mean, why not just organized "Photos" and "Videos" into separate folders within the same "house" (SSD)? It keeps everything separated, and categorizes what area of the hard drive to go to, in order to access the data you need. The only benefit to making a partition in this video that I can surmise, is so that I can run different formatting languages on the same drive. Am I wrong here? Is there a greater purpose to having partitions? If one becomes corrupt, does that protect the others from becoming corrupt? Also, if I have multiple partitions using different languages, can I easily move files from one partition to the next without issue? Thanks for any and all clarification!
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
Hi @Aviator503! Let me clarify and provide a few examples. Will the majority of users need to ever create a partition or volume. No. Most will ever need to or want to. However here's some benefits and reasons I've created them along the side of just being a little more organized. 1. Let say I have a shared family computer with multiple local user accounts. I could make a volume that is shared among all users so it's really easy to share files/folders among each user. Now granted you can do this with the "Public" folder that is automatically created with each user account, but that gets quite cumbersome. Creating a volume, you can ignore the ownership on it and everyone has access to all content on there. 2. Let's say that you need to run Windows on your Mac. Creating a volume/partition on there would allow you to install a Windows OS on there. Without creating a partition/volume, this wouldn't be possible on the same drive...unless it's a virtual machine, and then that's a whole different topic. 3. Let's say that I'm an IT guru and I'm often testing multiple versions of Mac Operating Systems. I would be able to create several volumes/partitions on one external hard drive and install a different macOS on each partition/volume. This is extremely helpful for troubleshooting or testing different things. I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
I cant tell you how much I love your attention to detail (makes my computing OCD happy), this has bee a great overview of partitions and volumes. I've been racking my brain on how to set up my "Travel" SSD for my Work/DJ laptop, and this has made me change my tune from 2 partitions to just running volumes on ATFS. I've been trying to decide the best way to have a "travel" backup on one section, and then my Music and DJ related files on another section to create some redundancy for worst case DJ issues. Are their any disadvantages of assigning a volume to a Time Machine backup as opposed to leaving in the main area and just giving it a max size for backups? I'm going to start searching your other videos as well, but if you have a clip that specifically discusses this let me know where and I will jump on that!
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
I appreciate the kind words @michaeljohnson112! As far as assigning a volume to a Time Machine backup...my personal preference/recommendation is to dedicate one drive to Time Machine only and nothing else. If you have it partitioned or have multiple volumes with other content on there and it's the backup, if something happens to the drive, there goes your backup and your files. It kinds defeats the purpose of a local backup. Hope all is well with the DJing! Thank you for your continued support! I appreciate you more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you!
Thx Joel
Hey Joel! This is a great video. I am transitioning from PC and this helps a lot. I have a question for you or any of your viewers with knowledge and experience with this. I went ahead and bought an external portable Samsung T7, 1TB for time machine backups and practice what I just learned from this video. I made a mistake and forgot to eject and disconnected the T7 from the port. Now it doesn’t work anymore (it doesn’t mount). Is it fixable or I just wasted $90 bucks?
Really useful and thorough explanation, thank you so much! Quick question, i have an EXFAT external drive with some data in it, if i create a partition on it and set it to APFS could i then create volumes inside that partition, so that i could have volumes in an HDD that wasn't APFS initially, without formatting it?
I would be very afraid to do this but I am curious what happens if you have an external partitioned and you want to wipe only one of the partitions. As a nuance to that, if you have one partition with a small amount of data on it, can you create another partition by hitting that plus sign, .... will it leave the data on the original partition or wipe both to create the 2 separate partitions? OH Found it at around 7min! Just curious! love listening, thank you
What to use to format mac without affecting the data. Partition or volume. Thanks in advance!
Thanks
@Learnwithjoel
10 ай бұрын
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Outstanding. Sub
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Жыл бұрын
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Which one would be better to divide a drive for time machine? I hear partition, but would library with the quota work also?
Do one on RAID Utility 😎👍🏼
Question. I went to download an update for my Mac and I didn’t have enough space for it so I send it to my external hard drive. Now my hard drive has an “update volume” the drive was used for work and now it doesn’t show my files unless I’m in disk utility. Not shure what to do.
Thanks for providing a great video. I'm curious though about reinstalling my Mac OS onto a hybrid drive? Should I see both drives? Or just one drive? I'm assuming that the SSD part of it should have the OS on it?
@Learnwithjoel
6 ай бұрын
That is a fantastic question @Zumaray! I do not have any Hybrid drives to test this on! Regardless, I would think if you make a volume, you should be able to install the macOS on it. I actually have just a regular SSD split into different volumes that I have a handful of older macOS installed on it for troubleshooting and fun. Maybe someone else has played with hybrid drives? Comment if you have! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@Zumaray
6 ай бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel I have done some research and found that it should be recognising the hard drive as a Fusion Drive. I shouldn’t have been seeing the separate drives. I have since fixed this following the steps to unite them again. But thanks again. Your video was very educational for me and I learnt a lot about volumes and partitions
hi there, i got A Samsung T7 touch 2Tb. i tried to partition it or creat Valum but it wont let me .i wonder if you have a video on this drive . i am running High Siera on 27 iMac. thank in advance
Even after formatting using exFAT, scheme GUID partition map, still won't allow to partition as 76 MB is used from the external drive. Erased multiple times, but still has the issue. How do I fix this>
Excellent video. How do I resize a partition? The ‘partition’ option in disk utility is greyed out
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
Hi @Silvermoon500! That's one of the downfalls of partitions...once it's created, it's not flexible. It can't be changed. If you wanted it bigger or smaller, you need to delete the portion and create a new one. So just keep in mind if you need to do that, make sure you content is saved someplace else as everything would get deleted on that partition. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@DiscoCitizens240
5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much
Hi, I don't mean to ask a dumb question but I'm not clear on APFS drives with Mac OS. I have a 6 TB External drive in APFS format. This is a mobile portable drive with a copy of my whole DJ library. I am in places where there is no Internet connectivity whatsoever. Do I absolutely have to have volumes? Can I just store my folders with Aiff Flac and MP3s inside them? Thank you in advance
I have a 16TB drive set up in Raid 1. Would I need to partition the drive into 8TB per partition one being a copy of the original. One would be named #1 8TB in size and one Copy 8TB in size. Is this how I would set up these partitions?
Good Evening Joel from Dublin Ireland. Really enjoying all your tutorials Could you do a video about transferring ITunes music to an external hard drive. Also a tutorial on the Canon M50 mark 2. Thanks in advance.Monday 27 March -Time 20.44
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate you and your kind words@Notitoforget! I will certainly add iTunes Music to my never ending list of topics! I've actually been looking at new cameras and curious on how the M50 is. Do you have one? Are you looking for a tutorial on how to use the M50 or implement it into an editing workflow? Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@Notitoforget
Жыл бұрын
Good evening Joel, Thank you for your quick response. Yes I have a Canon Mark 11. Looking forward to your tutorial. Cheers.
Apologies if you mentioned this, but does creating partitions or volumes on an internal SSD on a Mac slow down the read/write speeds of the disk? … For context: I recently purchased a new M1 Pro with an internal 512GB drive and I want to designate around a 100GB for photo processing in Lightroom when I’m out and about rather than carrying an external disk.
@Learnwithjoel
11 ай бұрын
HI @anthonyrego1351! I personally wouldn't worry about a slow down of the drive if you add a volume to it. Especially because it's an SSD on an M1 Pro, I think you'l be fine with photo editing. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
My internal drive is running Mojave. I decided to install Monterey on an external SSD to see how many programs won't work. It worked ok, but when I boot back into Mojave I get a Incompatible Disk message saying the disk uses features not supported on this version of macOS. When I select startup disk I don't even see the external SSD as an option. The only way I can boot off that drive is holding down the option key on bootup. On Mojave I see Monterey/Update volumes but when I boot into Monterey I get Monterey/Data volumes. Both drives are formatted APFS. What happened to the good old days when it just worked?
May I know if I could further adjust the quota size after creating the APFS volume?
@Learnwithjoel
10 ай бұрын
Great question @TommyMa-Canton. From my experience, once you create the volume and set the quota size, you are not able to go back and alter the size. I've only been able to remove the volume and create new one. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@TommyMa-Canton
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment, actually I created an APFS volume on my external SSD for time machine backup. But unfortunately the backup size exceeds the quota and the backup fails. I exploring the way for extending the volume without data lost. Anyway, I've learned more about the partition vs volume on Mac and thank you for your sharing.
Why did you choose Mac OS extended over the APFS format?
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
Hi @Marcus Barnes! I was probably just leaving it as Mac OS Extended for no particular reason. If I were to buy a new drive I would format it as APFS. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@BruceKorb
Жыл бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel A portable-to-Windows (or Linux) portable drive is often more useful. :). *EXA*bytes, by the way.
Can you please let me know if I can partition my Time Machine for my iMac?
@Learnwithjoel
29 күн бұрын
Hi @brianlong5777! You could partition a drive a drive that is used for Time Machine, but I would recommend to dedicate one drive as the Time Machine backup. If the drive goes bad and you have files on the other partition, where would the backup be? THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Why do I make volumes instead of just folders in one partition? Are Volumes separated from each other like partitions incase of corrupted file system?
So if you delete a volume is it the same as deleting a partition where everything on that volume is erased, or is it automatically just incorporated back into the other combined volume?
@Learnwithjoel
7 ай бұрын
Great question @plugger410! When a volume gets deleted, it will erase all data from that volume just like it does on a partition. So make sure to backup the files and move to another location prior! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
I have a doubt! I just factory reset my MacBook, and I’m in the process of thinking if 150GB allocated for OS and 350GB allocated for my data is going to be enough? (This is all internal storage)
@Learnwithjoel
8 ай бұрын
Hi @L3UZ3R. So you want to partition/create a volume on your main internal drive? I would for sure go with a volume if it's a newer SSD internally. This way you can always allocate more to OS. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
Hi Sir. Found your channel and watched a few videos about iCloud Photos you previously posted. I am having a major syncing issue and I have had an open ticket with Apple support for quite some time now. I’m wondering if you might have heard about this issue and a possible solution. Is there anyway to reach you and explain my situation in detail? I don’t have a FB account. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
Hi @James K! What is the sync issue? You can always post here or on my community page, as their may be other people who have had same issue: www.youtube.com/@Learnwithjoel/community I look forward to chatting! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@cobrabtc
Жыл бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel hi. Thanks for replying. The following iCloud Photos issue has been a problem for months. I even read on other forums that this issue existed even when iOS 16 was in beta last year. The main issue: iCloud photo “library “. Months ago, I created a shared “library “. Uploaded a lot of photos. I sent 4 invites out but for some reason only 1 person got the invite and accepted it. Since this was still buggy, I decided to delete the library. That’s when the issues started. The library seemed to be removed from all my Apple devices at first. At this time, my iCloud Photos stopped syncing. I only see the message: “deleting shared library “. Again there is no shared library on my Apple Photos devices. The person that originally accepted the invitation now shows “removing from Shared library “ on her devices. I went one step further and checked the iCloud Photos issue on the cloud (website). I only see folders called “personal library “ and “shared library “. However, the shared library is completely empty. All my personal iCloud Photos are still in the cloud but stopped syncing months ago the day I deleted the shared library. Apple has no clue. This case has been sent to higher levels and they have no answers for me. Many users on communities out there had similar issues too but no explanations or solutions. Thoughts? Also… this is about the new feature called shared library…. Not shared folders. In Case some are confused. Thanks. James
@cobrabtc
Жыл бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel by the way .. adding to my previous comment. I have already tried turning off iCloud Photos and resetting stuff. Every time I try to enable my iCloud Photos again, it starts and gets stuck on deleting shared library…. Has to be a server side issue. Apple isn’t saying much of anything although I’m paying for storage that doesn’t work. Sucks
But how do I partition mac for 1. DATA and 2. APPLICATIONS?? I'm just a beginner..dpnyou have a vídeo on that? I had tonreboot my mac 😢
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
Hi @Julia-ir1yj! So actually each Mac by default has two different volumes created: Macintosh HD and Macintosh Data Apple installs all the system files and Applications on the main Macintosh HD and then your home folder and all user files are designed to be stored on the Macintosh Data volume. To the user however you only see one Macintosh HD within the Finder. I would recommend to keep Applications in the Application folder where they belong and if needed, create a volume using Disk Utility to be used for other files/documents. THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
I have a new 8 gb external drive. Is it ok to partition it so that 5 gb is for Time Machine backup, and 3 gb is for other storage, ie pictures and videos?
@Learnwithjoel
5 ай бұрын
Great question @Quince828! Yes it is possible to partition an external drive to use one volume/partition for Time Machine and the another volume/partition for photos, videos and other files. However in my personal opinion, I would not recommend this. The purpose of a backup is to have a separate location of your files incase a hard drive fails or something happens. If you're Time Machine is on the same external drive as your photos and other files, it kinds defeats the purpose. What would happen if the drive got lost, stolen, broken? You would lose everything on there. I always dedicate one external entirely for a Time Machine backup. I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
@Quince828
5 ай бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel thanks for the answer. It just seemed that 8 tb was a bit of overkill to back up the 1 tb ssd in my iMac.
@Quince828
Ай бұрын
@@Learnwithjoelit seems now that the partition not being used for Time Machine is not accessible. My desktop or finder only shows Time Machine. How do I tell my iMac that I want to see the whole drive? Was it wrong of me to use only a portion of the drive for backups?
Thlink to the file system formats - where is it?
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
Hi @Razip Samian! What are you looking for specifically? Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
EB represents Exabyte which is 1M TB= 1 EB
How to Transfer microsoft Outlook Applications From Mac Onto an External Drive
EB is Exabytes -- 1EB = 1,024 Petabytes
Great video, cheers ! By the way, are you an educator? If not, you should become one,.....👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍⭐👍
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate you and your kind words @Angelo petrelli! Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I think this iis muck like the sparse image we used to do back in the day - no?
I erased the parents internal SSD and it made things go out of whack. I’m not an expert on this. It looks like a petition was created between the 240 GB SSD and 240 GB OS 10 base system. Odd. The only child folder is the sata internal AFS physical store and it’s not mounting. Should the SSD be format Mac OS extended Journaled encrypted or AFS encrypted? I had SSD, container, and Macintosh HD internal and nothing else. Not sure how to get that back.
EB = Exabytes, two to the sixtieth power or 1 BILLION GB
@Learnwithjoel
11 ай бұрын
So many things to learn @mr.skeffington0007! Thanks so much for watching and sharing! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
1 EB (Exabyte) is equal to 1 billion gigabytes.
@Learnwithjoel
Жыл бұрын
That is a lot of storage @Ric West! Definitely above my pay grade! :-) Thanks for watching!
@ricwestdoesitwork
Жыл бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel Not above the pay grade as much as it would be for the wallet.
Don't More size partition system mac
@Learnwithjoel
11 ай бұрын
Not sure what you mean @amrebnelaas Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
@amrelaasey
11 ай бұрын
@@Learnwithjoel Correct with me, when I deleted the partition and created it with the extension fat32, it was added successfully. Thank you for your interest.
This is what I was hoping to find but sadly the distracting hissy background noise is distracting me, like trying to listen to someone talking when they pull off their headphones but let the music carry on playing. Maybe it's just my brain but it's annoying and I have to bail. Seems to be a typically American thing where content creators look for more bells & whistles to compress into their content. The fancy lighting, the pointless intro you have to sit through, constant reminders to subscribe, pointing to corners for links to other videos and of course the obligatory background music. It's just junk and packaging that needs to be removed before you get to what you want.
@Learnwithjoel
8 ай бұрын
I appreciate your feedback @alanhopkins3675! I've had heard lots of feedback from both sides of the spectrum, so I just do my best and try to create informative easy to understand content. Thanks for watching though!