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  1. /dev/sda1: LABEL="VERBATIM HD" UUID="17E7-165D" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="123fc67a-01" I have come across that metadata before when writing embedded code for reading SD cards that have been written by Mac devices, and it has caused me headaches before I eventually worked out what was going on! 😀 This is one of the reasons I know Macs are quite happy with pretty much any type of FAT File system as one of the team members was always putting stuff on to the SD cards from OSX. 🙂 They're just projects, nothing was zipped. I've had no issues copying projects across machines before whether it be in the old days by burning DVDs, on USB memory sticks, across a network storing it on ext4, uploading it to an FTP site for someone to mix songs or on this external drives. It wouldn't be good if the file system did affect it; what about when you're creating photos, PDFs, Word Docs etc etc. Surely they will all be file syetem agnostic? I suppose it's possible that because Logic only works on Macs then they might be different. I am wondering now what that metadata is used for, I need to go read up on it!
  2. Originally it stopped auto-mounting, then I did it manually. Being a Linux user I know my way around the Unix command line! 😀 Once I remounted it manually, it then failed partway though copying a large Logic project. I repeated it and the same thing happened. One of the first things I did when it started playing up was try it [the external drive] on other machines and when it worked flawlessly on other devices it was obvious there was an issue with the Mac. I think you might be missing the point that this is used for absolutely nothing but transferring files/keeping a secondary backup. I'm not running the project from it, but copying it from external drive on to the internal drive. OSX is perfectly capable of reading and writing to a FAT file system and if you're transferring files to a an external device rather than over a network I think I'm right in saying FAT is the only common file system Windows and OSX both can read/write. It's a while since I looked at this though and that might be an outdated belief. It should also be noted that this is not the only place I have it backed up, everything goes on to a RAID server as well, it's just faster pulling stuff off a USB3 device than from over a LAN. Unlike the OP I am absolutely paranoid about losing data. Hard drives have died on me far too often by half for me not to worry about it!
  3. There's nothing wrong with the drive. It works perfectly on my Linux machine. It's a couple of years old and been used a handful of times purely for transfer of data. FAT might not be Apple's native format but it works fine and I'm not tying the drive to a format only Macs can read.
  4. As I said in my original post I'm on 13.0. HD is a verbatim USB3 drive, FAT format, using an A-type plug. Was working fine on an old Macbook (2012 with an old version of OSX). Actually, worked OK on my M1 machine until I updated to v13. Last few days. was constantly telling me it had been incorrectly ejected when it was just sat there doing nowt. It's been used on my Linux machine all day without issue. Have a read through this thread, it's clearly an issue.
  5. I spent a while yesterday trying to get to the bottom of why an external drive had stopped mounting. Worked fine on my Linux machine, but just would not copy data onto the Mac. I'm on v13.0. This is a amazing problem to be running across two versions of OSX. Does suggest the OP's problems are down to the OS rather than the HDDs.
  6. Oh yes, I do not doubt this! I was ignorant of this. Had assumed that once I'd trimmed them all the deleted stuff would be gone. The issue is that I am a long way down the road of mixing them now and it would be a massive job to start over. I guess I'll have to live with it and just get them off the local drive as soon as they have gone off to be mastered. Thanks for the help. If I do this again I'll have learnt a lesson! 😄
  7. Folks, A while back I got someone to scan some analogue multitracks for me. They supplied them as three lots of twenty-four wavs of the whole tape reels. If I remember corerectly what I did was import them all at the same time into Logic then snip them into all the different songs and save them as projects. Again, twenty-four tracks at a time. I recently transferred them to a new machine and noticed that the Logic projects are huuuuuuge. Over 7G, so I have twelve or so songs all with this massive file sizes. When I go into the browser function (the thing you get by pressing F that brings up the menu at the far right hand side of the main screen in Logic ) I can see all these wavs are 292M which is clearly way too big for a three minute song. I have retrimmed start and end of the song to remove the excessive thriteen bar lead in and twenty odd bars of silence and still the file sizes in the Logic browser are the same at 292M. Can anyone think what I have done wrong here and how I can reduce these file sizes to get these insnaely large projects down to a reasonable size please? Thanks!
  8. No, it's my fault, my wording was poor. Many thanks for taking the time to help.
  9. One thing I have just sorted is getting Relab plugin working. I have gone back to running in Native mode rather than Rosetta. Rescanned the plugin and it works fine. I'll try running in native mode and see how it goes, but previously, with 10.7.3 I was finding that as soon as you ran any plugin that needed Rosetta the system and therefore the music would stutter and it became unuseable. With hindsight I'd've bought an Intel Mac and waited until all this was mature.
  10. I was meaning, on that animated GIF thing you posted above, how did you get to that screen. I realise how to right click :D, it was just I couldn't work out how to get to that, but I think it's this:
  11. Same as me then. I've found a web site that has a copy of 10.7.3 and a friend of mine is still running it apparently, so if the downloaded one is bogus, I'll get him to post me a copy down. Thanks for the help.
  12. I think it has to be, was working fine until I updated to 10.7.4, so I fail to see how it can be anything but. What hardware are you running on? You on Intel still? I'm on ARM, so it's possible it's only crappy on that I suppose!
  13. Thanks for that. Sorry to be slow, but how do I get to this right click menu thing? I launch programs with that pop up menu at the bottom of the screen that appears when you hover the mouse over it. I think you can also launch by using file explorer and clicking on the applications shortcut the left hand side to bring them all up as if they're in a directory. Maybe you can do that and make a copy from there? OS X, if it isn't obvious, isn't my normal OS and although Linux is still essentially, Unix, just like OS X, I struggle with the desktop, so sorry if I'm asking daft questions!
  14. Wouldn't have the foggiest how to even do that TBH, but it sounds like good advice. For future reference how do I do that please? I do regularly back up, but I back up data, I don't back up applications. Not something I've ever had to do before roll back to a previous version of [any sort of] app. It's flaky. My most-used third party plug-in stopped working which took down the whole program; took me hours trying to work out which plug-in it was that was borking it and still isn't working. There are so many weird things like when you click on a MIDI note, the editor part of the screen shuts down, the snip tool randomly works then doesn't for no clear reason, it crashes even more than usual, I regularly have to reboot it because it slows down to a snail's pace until you reboot the program. 10.7.3 worked basically OK other than ocassionally just shutting down with no warning.
  15. I'm in the same boat. If anyone's reading this and considering "upgrading" to 10.7.4, then my advice is don't! It's really rubbish that Apple don't give you the option to go back a version.
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