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can't restore as external drive not showing up in backups

I stupidly just installed catalina... now photoshop cs6 wont work so im trying to restore from the time machine backup i made...

Frustratingly, the external hardrive is nnot showing in the select a restore source!!! The drive is recognized in the disk utility!!!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Jun 17, 2020 8:16 AM

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Posted on Jun 18, 2020 9:15 PM

Yeah- it showed it as mounted.

I actually managed to fix the problem. The drive had a password protection on it. I actually had to log on to my machine and open and unlock the drive- and then remove the drive password protection.

Then I had the issue of the restore not working because the drive was formatted differently. I eventually found a solution to that problem in a thread somewhere and had to delete the hard drive before doing the restore.

All up- I lost a full day of productivity to be able to return to the point I was at before.

Moral of this story- if you are a user of Photoshop CS6 (and don't want to be trapped into an exploitative adobe subscription to be able to do what you can already do) - DON'T "upgrade" to Catalina!

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Jun 18, 2020 9:15 PM in response to BDAqua

Yeah- it showed it as mounted.

I actually managed to fix the problem. The drive had a password protection on it. I actually had to log on to my machine and open and unlock the drive- and then remove the drive password protection.

Then I had the issue of the restore not working because the drive was formatted differently. I eventually found a solution to that problem in a thread somewhere and had to delete the hard drive before doing the restore.

All up- I lost a full day of productivity to be able to return to the point I was at before.

Moral of this story- if you are a user of Photoshop CS6 (and don't want to be trapped into an exploitative adobe subscription to be able to do what you can already do) - DON'T "upgrade" to Catalina!

can't restore as external drive not showing up in backups

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