You may wish to use an external FireWire or USB hard drive to store your Aperture Library, referenced images, or Vaults. Here are some suggestions on preparing the external hard drive for best performance with Aperture. Many external hard drives come pre-formatted as FAT 32. This is a native Windows file format that can be read by Mac OS X, but is not ideal for use with Aperture.
Before you begin to use your new external hard drive with Aperture, reformat it to the Mac OS Extended file system:. Be sure your drive is attached and mounted. If you have already written any data to the drive, back it up before proceeding to the next step. In the Finder, choose Go Utilities. The /Applications/Utilities folder will open.
Jul 28, 2009 The format for your new hard drive should be changed to Mac OS Extended - (journaled is optional). In this video I cover how to format internal and external hard drives, solid state drives, thumb drives, and SD cards with Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.11 'El Capitan'.
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Launch Disk Utility. Click the icon for your external hard drive in the sidebar on the left. Click the Erase tab along the top of the window.
From the Volume Format menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Enter a name for the external hard drive in the Name field. Click the Erase button. Information about products not manufactured by Apple, or independent websites not controlled or tested by Apple, is provided without recommendation or endorsement. Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the selection, performance, or use of third-party websites or products. Apple makes no representations regarding third-party website accuracy or reliability. Risks are inherent in the use of the Internet.
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Hello Experts, I have an external hard drive which was originally formatted as NTFS. This worked well because I needed to use the hard drive on both Windows and Mac OS platforms. Under normal circumstances, only being able to transfer 4 gigabytes of data onto the hard drive was more than sufficient; however, like usual, there are those times when one has a file larger than 4 gigabytes and thus the NTFS format will not suffice. Therefore, I reformatted the drive as a Mac OS Extended Journal format (which was not a fun task considering the size of my internal hard drive and the process I took of preserving my data). Long story short, is there a way I can create a partition on the drive as NTFS and preserve the Mac partition that is currently on my external hard drive? I think you might be able to do this non-destructively using the built in command line disk utlity commands. I did exactly this on OS X 10.5 to set up a triple boot on my macbook.
You have to manually specify the partition sizes. You will need to defrag the disk first though to move all the mac data to one place.
Also, not sure if you can do this on external disk - but you could use boot camp to non-destructively create an NTFS partition from your macintosh - boot camp worked on 10.4.11 although i think it was always beta version. I used boot camp successfully on 10.4 without losing any data. There are some tips here.
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