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All copied! NFTS is gone, well I think it’s gone.

It’s going! Thanks for sticking around for this.

I erased the old and reformatted to Mac OS extended! Now to remove all the NFTS garbage.

Nice! I wish I had the patience to learn more about computers. I find it interesting though! data transferred, I took a nap. going to reformat the other external.

Omg just looked em up. Over 1k!! 😳

Wow. I need one of those!

I’ll be back in 2 hours. I can’t wait to remove the NFTS software 🤬

Copying.

Restarted. It seems to have stopped reading.

It’s never done this before. I have nothing running. I’ve quit the NFTS software. It’s just finder accessing the external for no apparent reason.

I can’t copy anything from the old yet unfortunately because finder is accessing it. It’s been making read sounds and spinning for the past hour and I can’t get finder to stop accessing it. So I’m stuck with where to go from here. So it’s safe to just reboot while the finder is accessing the HD? I’m so nervous I’m going to lose the data on that thing.

I’m really nervous for the old HD now. I can’t get finder to stop reading it. It’s been reading for the past hour and I can’t force quit finder. I don’t want to force eject the HD in fear of losing the data I have not copied yet.

Now I’m having a problem with the old external HD. The finder won’t stop accessing the external. I’ve tried forcing the finder to quit. I’ve tried relaunching finder. Nothing is working.

If the external hard drive is already apfs formatted after erasing how do I get it to be Mac OS extended? I fixed this but have a new question Why do I want to change it from apfs to Mac OS extended? expanding on the post from Ask Damien group. Computer is running slow. We are removing NFTS software that current external is using, copying data to new external, reformatting old external to Mac OS journaled