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I have hooked up a 2TB SSD external drive to my Mac and TimeMachine (TM) kept excluding it from the backup. I want the contents of my SSD drive backed up in the regular backups.
When open Options in TM, the SSD drive is the Excluded List and it is greyed out so I cannot remove it.
Any idea how to handle this?
When reformatting the drive make sure that Show All Devices has been selected from View in the menubar.
Highlight the Disk (probably named after the manufacturer) not any indented Volumes and click Erase,
do you get the APFS options now.
When reformatting the drive make sure that Show All Devices has been selected from View in the menubar.
Highlight the Disk (probably named after the manufacturer) not any indented Volumes and click Erase,
do you get the APFS options now.
Interesting, when I tried to Erase it, APFS is not one of the options.
The ones available are only the MacOS Extended (Case sensitive, journaled) and the non-case sensitive ones.
None of the APFS are available.
Additionally, Partition was greyed out. So, I can't even re-partition it.
Strange. Is APFS only suitable for disk-based drives?
I have formatted it to MacOS Extended (Case sensitive, journaled).
That's why it's excluded.
It was formatted as ExFat,
That's why. Once it's reformatted there will be no problem backing it up with Time Machine.
How is it formatted?
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It was formatted as ExFat, which I'm in the process of switching to APFS after I finish copying all the files somewhere else.
Since most new macs come with SSD drives, no, APFS is available for them.
MacOs Extended is fine.
Got it. Thanks.
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