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Title: Time Machine: No FAT or exFAT drives, only HFS+ and APFS Post by: HCK on September 16, 2019, 04:05:13 pm Time Machine: No FAT or exFAT drives, only HFS+ and APFS
<article> <section class="page"> <p>To judge by a recent spate of email, Mac users are using Windows and Unix/Linux compatible drives more than ever. Many people have asked why their external drive appears and is grayed-out in the Time Machine preference pane’s excluded list. (Open the Time Machine preference pane and click Options to see that list.)</p><p>That’s because the drive isn’t formatted in a way that Time Machine can back up files from. While I’ve covered this in previous columns, it’s worth a quick refresher, given how many people are apparently currently dealing with this.</p><ul> <li> <p>Time Machine volumes must be HFS+ formatted, listed in Disk Utility as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3436937/time-machine-no-fat-or-exfat-drives-only-hfs-and-apfs.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Time Machine: No FAT or exFAT drives, only HFS+ and APFS (https://www.macworld.com/article/3436937/time-machine-no-fat-or-exfat-drives-only-hfs-and-apfs.html#tk.rss_all) |