Jim had called and asked about how to get his LaCie hard drive to show up on his desktop. After some errors and a restart of his Mac, it didn’t show up any more.
On the show, I had given him a couple of suggestions. Here, I’ll go over those again, as well as offer a few more. If you have an external drive that’s misbehaving, here are some tips.
After the show, Jane from Green Bay sent in a question.
She wants to save very large files, such as video based projects, to her external hard drives. But once the files hit about 4 Gigabytes (GB), lots of Bad Things® start to happen.
Typically, when you buy an external hard drive, it’s set up to work for the largest possible audience. So they “format” the drive using a setting called “FAT32″, which means it will work on most any PC or Mac. The problem is, when they’re set up this generically, you miss out on all the features that a platform specific setup would give you.
Here’s how you fix this.
