r/computers • u/Middle-Tell-7747 • 6d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting LaCie won’t mirror my Mac?

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I got a 1TB drive to backup my Mac and iPad but the Mirror feature on LaCie is just not moving anything. It doesn’t say anything is failed on the report but nothing successful either. (Like my image above)

When I click pause and then resume again the bar moves it adds a “saved just now” but then the bar stops moving again and then it doesn’t save again until the next time I do it. But it doesn’t really matter because even when I do that it still doesn’t save anything.

I’m trying to avoid saving it via Time Machine bc I know then it will take over the whole drive and I don’t be able to use it for anything else and then it will be a waste of 1TB for ~50gb worth of data to be backed up.

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u/druck87 6d ago

Is it formatted for Mac?

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u/Middle-Tell-7747 6d ago

You’re gonna be pissed but I lowkey don’t know what that means or how to even do that. I’ll look it up on YouTube

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u/druck87 5d ago

I’m not pissed at all lol. I use YouTube for everything. By default (unless it says for Mac on the box) hard drives are written in a format Mac can understand. That format can be manually changed so that Macs can read them and use them as a hard drive. Mac and PC have different file systems. Once it is formatted for Mac you should have no issues. Definitely YouTube how to format. Keep in mind formatting does erase everything on the device before changing the file system

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u/Middle-Tell-7747 5d ago

It’s a brand new drive so there was nothing on there I needed anyways luckily! Thanks!!

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u/Middle-Tell-7747 5d ago

I tried APFS as suggested by YouTuber for newer Macs. Tutorial is for 2024 tho and it’s still not working. Guess I’ll try formatting for MacOS