Because the title says, I’ve an previous Mac working 10.13 (Excessive Sierra) with an 16TB exterior drive formatted to ExFat that serves as my essential “backup” drive for each pc in my dwelling.
Some background: I used to have a 5TB drive (formatted as HFS+) for this and the whole lot (i.e. all of the situations listed beneath that are not engaged on the brand new drive) labored flawlessly. However area was working low so I needed to improve to a more moderen one. On condition that my Mac can also be fairly previous, I needed the brand new drive formatted in ExFat so when the Mac dies I might then, and solely then, swap it to a more moderen PC.
The problems: On the Mac, I can copy the information to the brand new drive utilizing Past Evaluate and my cloud backup service appears to haven’t any downside seeing the brand new information and even thinks they match with the prevailing backup set so it does not attempt to add them once more. That is nice.
However on all my Home windows machines that join it, issues began to not work with the brand new drive. Chrome cannot save downloads to it and provides a very unspecified error. I can not manually add information to the drive. For example I connect with the drive and open up an present folder. I can see information in there. But when I right-click and select New -> Wealthy Textual content Doc, Home windows instantly says “Unable to create file ‘foo’. There’s not sufficient area on the disk.” Winamp can now not scan the folders on the brand new drive (I can not discover any errors). There are different oddities however these are the principle ones for me. Like I stated above, all of those situations work fantastic when connecting to the older HFS+ drive from my Home windows machines however not the brand new ExFat drive. And I can do the whole lot on the Mac with no points (at the least with Chrome downloads and creating information). I’ve tried connecting to the drive through <machine><driveName> and making an attempt to share particular person folders on the drive. Similar outcomes. It seems to be how the Mac is opening connections to Home windows however I do not know what the repair is, if any.
Any concepts right here could be appreciated. However I am eager on preserving the backup drive on the Mac so long as that machine is working.
