Hi, Partition management is not particularly intuitive. That is, removing a partition does not necessarily mean you can add that freed up space to a different partition. What ends up happening is that you often just make that portion of the disk unreachable until you re-format it again, subsequently giving you that same partition back again. Think of it like this, if your disk has four partitions, we'll name them Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3, and Disk 4. If you remove Disk 4, then it is possible to extend Disk 3 to include the space freed up from removing Disk 4, but the opposite is not true. Removing Disk 3 does not allow you to extend any other partition into that freed up space. With this limitation, it is often simply easier to wipe and re-partition the drive, or, if you have enough free space, to move data around so that you can manipulate the the partitions easier. Even then, it can be a bit of a exercise in futility. Don't get me wrong, it's not that the task is impossible, it's just that it is often time consuming, frustrating, and if you aren't already bald, you might lose some hair in the process.
Later... Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 25, 2020, at 20:40, Raymond Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> wrote: Okay, Here’s the thing. Using L-Capitan on my mid 2009 Mac book pro, I am trying to erase partitions on my external USB drive but I can’t do it. I think the problem occurs when I try to select the partition to be remove in the pie view. Instead of removing partitions, I just seem to be creating new ones and can’t remove them. Is there any way to accessibly do this without totally formatting the entire drive? It’s a 4TB USB drive and I’ve got a lot of audio I don’t want to lose on it just to do this. HEEEEELP! Sent from the first computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: Sincerely, The constantly barefooted Ray -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/72A0A93C-FE90-406A-A714-8FE51667D640%40comcast.net <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/72A0A93C-FE90-406A-A714-8FE51667D640%40comcast.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/773F3A14-F4CE-416A-AE08-2AF6D266E888%40me.com.
