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How to prepare a brand new hard drive for use with macOS

March 2, 2018

Arthur Gareginyan

Mac OS

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Updated: October 16, 2019

I bought a brand new external hard drive (disk) Transcend StoreJet 25M3 1Tb. A Transcend company says that it can be used on both Windows and macOS. But most drives (from any manufacturer) come formatted in the NTFS file system format for OS Windows, while for macOS we needed the HFS+ format or the Apple’s brand new APFS (Apple File System) format. macOS can read but not write to NTFS formatted drives. So the only workaround is to format the disc to HFS+ or APFS.
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Create a personal bin directory (~/bin) and run scripts without specifying their full path

February 28, 2018

Arthur Gareginyan

Mac OS

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Sometimes there is a need to download some command-line application (like ExifTool) and run it from the Terminal, but without putting it into a main system directory for the bin files - /usr/local/bin/.
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How to convert a hard drive from HFS+ to APFS

February 4, 2018

Arthur Gareginyan

Mac OS

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Recently, Apple introduced its new file system called APFS (Apple File System). This brand new file system is designed for use on SSD disks, but there’s nothing wrong with using it on usual hard disks. The easiest way to format the disc is by using macOS built-in Disk Utility app. Let’s get started.
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How to fix: The volume can't be ejected because it's currently in use (for regular users)

February 2, 2018

Arthur Gareginyan

Mac OS

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Updated: April 26, 2020

After working with an external hard drive (further simply - disk) I want to cleanly unmount it. But to my surprise when pressing the ‘eject’ button Finder warns me with the following error message:
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How to download a complete macOS High Sierra installer app

January 30, 2018

Arthur Gareginyan

Mac OS

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Recently my sister asked me to reinstall the macOS High Sierra on her iMac because it stopped working correctly. I thought that it would be easy to do but I was mistaken. I successfully installed the macOS Mountain Lion (when using the NetBoot it automatically selects the version of macOS with which the iMac was shipped with). But then I was facing multiple issues trying to update macOS from Mountain Lion to High Sierra via the Mac App Store.
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