DominusOfMegadeus to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-22 months agoPro Tip: If you are using a Mac, and your PLEX library on an external drive is behaving oddly, and/or mounting very slowly; check the format.message-square6fedilinkarrow-up154file-text
arrow-up154message-squarePro Tip: If you are using a Mac, and your PLEX library on an external drive is behaving oddly, and/or mounting very slowly; check the format.DominusOfMegadeus to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish • edit-22 months agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
If it’s not formatted in APFS, then you have almost certainly identified your issue. Boy, did I feel silly finding this out.
minus-square@ReallyActuallyFrankensteinlinkEnglish2•2 months agoIs there a better filesystem that is Mac and PC compatible? I’ve used ExFAT for that reason alone, but it’s a big one.
minus-squareChewylinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoNot natively, as far as I know. NTFS works well on Linux for the most part (unless you need permissions), but macOS natively only supports reading. FAT32 is universally well supported, but the partition size limit and 4GB file size limit make it unusable for me. Linux filesystems as well as macOS filesystems aren’t supported natively anywhere else, so ExFAT it is.
Is there a better filesystem that is Mac and PC compatible? I’ve used ExFAT for that reason alone, but it’s a big one.
Not natively, as far as I know. NTFS works well on Linux for the most part (unless you need permissions), but macOS natively only supports reading.
FAT32 is universally well supported, but the partition size limit and 4GB file size limit make it unusable for me.
Linux filesystems as well as macOS filesystems aren’t supported natively anywhere else, so ExFAT it is.