Transfer Files From Mac to External Hard Drive in 3 Minutes

Fantastic, just what I needed to confirm. And finally I feel as if I've found a 'Mac buddy' who can help me out when needed. Will check out your services on your website, thanks for this!

Bless this guy! 💕 super helpful

What happens if your device is so full you cannot install the external drive software?

Its over 8 minutes, not 3 minutes.

I have been ofloading stuff from my mac to my LaCie but did not realize it was being stored in ExFAT .. what does this mean? Will my files be deprecated if i try and bring them back onto my mac? Can i change the format while items are on my external hard drive?

hi. I am new to Macs and have a Mac Pro. Can you have both external drives open to move files like in Windows? Thanks.

I dont know, It gives me a stop signal when i try to transfer into my hard drive and it still has lots of gb of space left in it. I dont know jeez. I understand you completely but for me i dont know

This guy speaks clearly and he's easy to understand. No fancy BS. Thank you!

Clean and concise....Thank you!

Well, I followed the directions, the computer never asked me to name the folder, and I can't find any of my pictures that I just tried to move. Now what?

You answered all my questions thank you very much!

so useful! thx!

You are just awesome. Now what happens if I use the drive for both windows and Mac?

I appreciate your knowledge you are sharing. You helped me a lot! 🫡💯

i have done turned my hard disk to mac version and transfer data, can my external hard disk move data to windows?

Thank you so much

You don't have to delete the files from the Mac unless you're selling the Mac.

Good info

Lucas inhabits the Island of Clarity, where his title is "Master of Clear Explanations". The island sits hidden amidst the vast Sea of Internet Gobbledegook.

One of the best instructional videos I've ever seen. Clean as a whistle and brief, to the point.

Eff Mac. I hate this stupid thing.

I have both windows & MacBook so I would like to know if there’s a format which would work on both laptops.

Do you know how to backup a MacBook onto an external HDD or an external SSD via a terminal? As I know correctly, TimeMachine makes the first backup like a total backup after formatting or partitioning and the next ones are incremental backups. I don't know why the other - i.e. the difference between the first backup and the new backup - aren't differential backups. Differential backups are good thing when the difference between the firs total backup and the new backup is large - e.g.: a month. But what does Time Machine do? Time Machine thinks it must be an incremental backup.

In the past I had a MacBook Pro 13 inch with Intel i5 and I could format an external HDD or an external SSD (format HFS+/APFS) and I could use TimeMachine to backup. Now I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch with M1 chip I couldn't do it. Maybe I couldn't do it because the external drive is connected to USB3.0 via sata-adapter and the USB-hub for USB3.0 is connected to a USB2.0 port which is a part of a adapter device for a MacBook which only has USB-C and Thunderbolt. The guide/manual informs me that I could do it, if I would do it with a Thunderbolt- or a USB-C-connection. Do you know whether I could buy a cable which adapts SATA for an external HDD/external SSD with Thunderbolt or USB-C? When I speak about Thunderbolt, it's Thunderbolt 3 or newer. Thunderbolt 3 has PCIe with 4 lanes and Thunderbolt 4 has PCIe with 2 lanes.

Rubbish video

I am so angry with IT corporations - why shouldn't I be able to move files without moving them to trash, I still have space taken up on my computer. Sick of everything I have being tracked and copied by Apple, Google, Adobe, and every other corporation. It slows everything down way too much and their AI is a future danger.

Great video but I have a question do you know if I can use LaCie rugged triple with adapter will work to bake up my iPad Pro without laptop??

Why is my mac storage still getting full when im saving everything to my external?? Driving me nuts

I didn't get a beautiful green check mark when I tried to format to Mac OS extended journaled. I got a erase failed. Now what?

Why do the 'date created' & 'date modified' change when I transfer my files to the hard drive?

This is assuming this extra large file is saved to my MacBook. I just edited my first Vlog and was hoping to save it directly to my SSD. However, it doesn’t give me that option in LumaFusion. I would hate to save this to my computer hard drive and it messes up my MacBook. I have an 8GB MacBook Pro (base model) 2020

"help me in my life" LMAO Love this!

Dude....this was such a good video. Straight to the point...covers all the main questions...easy to follow. Thank You for this.

Yes, this is actually a load of crap. You copy and delete. You do not use the process that is called "offloading" 

You can transfer files to an external SSD without losing the automatic cloud synchronization by using a process called "offloading."

Here are the steps you can follow:

Connect the external SSD to your Mac.
Open Finder and navigate to the files you want to transfer to the external SSD.
Select the files you want to transfer, and right-click on them.
From the context menu, select "Move to" and choose the external SSD as the destination.
Wait for the transfer process to complete. This may take some time, depending on the size of the files.
Once the files have been transferred, you can delete the original files from your internal SSD. However, instead of deleting them, you can also choose to "offload" them.
To offload files, select the files you want to offload and right-click on them.
From the context menu, select "Offload". This will remove the files from your internal SSD, but they will still be available on iCloud.
The next time you need to access the offloaded files, simply click on them. Your Mac will automatically download the files from iCloud and store them temporarily on your internal SSD.
By following these steps, you can transfer files to an external SSD without losing the automatic cloud synchronization of those files to other Macs with larger SSDs

Won’t let me add copies to the external hard drive, I currently have a lot of PC stuff in it

Help me, I deleted all the photos I had on my hard drive. With the same method you taught. How can I return?

but it does not work without formatting the external device, does it?

Thank you.

I bought an external hard drive to be able to delete photos from my mac book to create some space Selected all and moved around 5,800 photos to the external but not as they appear on the mac in date order but randomly, the first one is in the correct place the rest are anywhere also there seems to be no way to make the icons the same size as on the mac, I might just as well but them on CDs or flash drives. Yes I have a copy of the photos but it's useless if you are looking for something presumably the only way to make an improvement would be in something like 6 month folders

Very much appreciated this video. I've formatted my external drive for Mac use.
Thanks to this video guide.

Just got a new LaCie 2tb external usb-c hd. I plugged it in and used Time Machine. It did back up. But I didn’t formate it. Is it to late to format?

Thank you very much for your informative and easy-to-follow instructions on your video.

I use WD Hard Disk and follow your step. Unfortunately. just now all my previously data inside my hard disk are erase. How should I do ?????

After clicking on 'erase' it comes up with 'volume erase failed: couldn't unmount disc'...any ideas on how to proceed? Thank you🙏

Thanks teacher

So you are moving files, not just copying or backing up ?

how about the offline files on my desktop?

Macs are trash, I can do this stuff in miliseconds on windows or linux

Very helpful!

Thank you so much for this detailed walk through of how to transfer data form mac book. Big help.