Just decided to hard format the external USB drive and loose my iTunes library. Not mind you that I have been fooling around with iTunes much on this mid 2009 Mac book pro. I’ve now set my Drop Box to online files only and redirected it to the home folder on my Mac’s 512GB. That leaves me with an entire 4TB USB drive as a spare disk. My Drop box account has 2TB on it but that takes up no space at all since it’s set to online only.
Sent from the first computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: Sincerely, The constantly barefooted Ray > On Apr 26, 2020, at 10:17 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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. 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