![]() Once you do this, and right click on the drive → "Get Info" will tell that you have custom access to the drive, instead of "read-only". If your exfat drive shows up as read-only, then all you need to do is unmount the drive and then use the "mount_exfat" utility to mount the drive. ** Checking upper case translation table. Please advice on how get rid of read-only and steps to mount exFAT external HDD properly in mac, want to prevent automatic fsck - also because fsck is taking forever, and not sure it could repare anything if in read-only mode.įSCK is stuck at checking system hierarchy: diskutil listĢ: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.4 GB disk0s2ģ: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3Ģ: Microsoft Basic Data myHDD 4.0 TB disk1s2įsck_exfat: Opened /dev/rdisk1s2 read-only I m confident disk is ok, since brand new. So I launch fsck - I don't know when it will finish, there are (estimated) about million files, HDD is 4T. Now the volume is mounted, but Read only. I kill the process, used diskutil to mount the volume, unmount and eject. I unplugged - when there were no process active. I quit the process of copying that directory. It happened with a directory it got stucked. I moved files from my laptop to the HDD (moved, I mean, I also deleted them). I bought a new HDD, formatted as exFAT with mac.
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