I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

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On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them after
it's down.

Idiot.

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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them after
it's down.

Idiot.

No Alan, I tried manually ejecting USB drives before sleep and found that Time Machine - on a USB drive - cannot be ejected. Then I looked for a SOLUTION and found the page I discovered.

This is what I saw, recorded this AM in response to your post -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dpx2IY424Gsc8JrtGDB-VusRELDQ2nqg/view?usp=sharing

So you cannot reliably and cleanly eject Mac USB drives? Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but Time Machine never because it's pretty much always busy? Should the OS not see the eject command, cleanly terminate any process accessing the volume, and
dismount it? Plus, no remedy is offered? How are you supposed to know what to do? What a stupid error.

Eject a USB drive after a shutdown? Just pull the USB plug? Is that not what you suggested could cause problems and the reason for the disconnect drives icon in Windows?

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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them after
it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep" command.
Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities unmount.

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On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown
and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/



Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper app
called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting from the
menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep" command. Seems to
work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer anything helpful) have a
better solution? This one is pretty slick. The menu bar icon it uses
is the same as Disk Utilities unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I didn't
WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

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On 2021-11-14 5:00 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown
and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down.

Idiot.

No Alan, I tried manually ejecting USB drives before sleep and found
that Time Machine - on a USB drive - cannot be ejected. Then I looked
for a SOLUTION and found the page I discovered.

Did you read what you wrote:

"manually eject my external drives prior to SHUTDOWN"

Shutdown is not sleep, Idiot.

This is what I saw, recorded this AM in response to your post -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dpx2IY424Gsc8JrtGDB-VusRELDQ2nqg/view?usp=sharing

So you cannot reliably and cleanly eject Mac USB drives? Sometimes
it works, sometimes not, but Time Machine never because it's pretty
much always busy? Should the OS not see the eject command, cleanly
terminate any process accessing the volume, and dismount it? Plus, no
remedy is offered? How are you supposed to know what to do? What a
stupid error.

Eject a USB drive after a shutdown? Just pull the USB plug? Is that
not what you suggested could cause problems and the reason for the
disconnect drives icon in Windows?

No. I suggested just pulling the plug when the system is RUNNING could
be a problem, Idiot.

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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown
and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/



Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper app
called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting from the
menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep" command. Seems to
work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer anything helpful) have a
better solution? This one is pretty slick. The menu bar icon it uses
is the same as Disk Utilities unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I didn't
WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups. It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA Trump Syndrome.

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On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:11:00 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 5:00 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown
and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down.

Idiot.

No Alan, I tried manually ejecting USB drives before sleep and found
that Time Machine - on a USB drive - cannot be ejected. Then I looked
for a SOLUTION and found the page I discovered.

Did you read what you wrote:

"manually eject my external drives prior to SHUTDOWN"

Shutdown is not sleep, Idiot.

This is what I saw, recorded this AM in response to your post -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dpx2IY424Gsc8JrtGDB-VusRELDQ2nqg/view?usp=sharing

So you cannot reliably and cleanly eject Mac USB drives? Sometimes
it works, sometimes not, but Time Machine never because it's pretty
much always busy? Should the OS not see the eject command, cleanly terminate any process accessing the volume, and dismount it? Plus, no remedy is offered? How are you supposed to know what to do? What a
stupid error.

Eject a USB drive after a shutdown? Just pull the USB plug? Is that
not what you suggested could cause problems and the reason for the disconnect drives icon in Windows?

No. I suggested just pulling the plug when the system is RUNNING could
be a problem, Idiot.

Here is a quote from you:

"Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down."

Please tell me how you command a disk eject after the Mac is shutdown.

Shutdown or sleep, it's the same issue.

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On 2021-11-14 4:50 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:11:00 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 5:00 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to shutdown
and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/

Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down.

Idiot.

No Alan, I tried manually ejecting USB drives before sleep and found
that Time Machine - on a USB drive - cannot be ejected. Then I looked
for a SOLUTION and found the page I discovered.

Did you read what you wrote:

"manually eject my external drives prior to SHUTDOWN"

Shutdown is not sleep, Idiot.

This is what I saw, recorded this AM in response to your post -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dpx2IY424Gsc8JrtGDB-VusRELDQ2nqg/view?usp=sharing

So you cannot reliably and cleanly eject Mac USB drives? Sometimes
it works, sometimes not, but Time Machine never because it's pretty
much always busy? Should the OS not see the eject command, cleanly
terminate any process accessing the volume, and dismount it? Plus, no
remedy is offered? How are you supposed to know what to do? What a
stupid error.

Eject a USB drive after a shutdown? Just pull the USB plug? Is that
not what you suggested could cause problems and the reason for the
disconnect drives icon in Windows?

No. I suggested just pulling the plug when the system is RUNNING could
be a problem, Idiot.

Here is a quote from you:

"Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject them
after it's down."

Please tell me how you command a disk eject after the Mac is shutdown.

You unplug it.

The machine is OFF, Idiot.

A machine that is off cannot be reading, or more importantly, writing to
the a disk at the moment you unplug it.

Shutdown or sleep, it's the same issue.

Nope. Not in the least, Idiot.

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On 2021-11-14 4:54 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to
shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time
Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/





Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject
them after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to
that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper
app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting
from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep"
command. Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer
anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty
slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities
unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I
didn't WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups.
It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA
Trump Syndrome.

You really can't figure out why the guy who called me "idiot" when he
got his facts wrong now doesn't get any help from me, Idiot?

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On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 1:58:43 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 4:54 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to
shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time
Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/





Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject
them after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to
that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper
app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting
from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep"
command. Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer
anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty
slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities
unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I
didn't WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups.
It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA
Trump Syndrome.

You really can't figure out why the guy who called me "idiot" when he
got his facts wrong now doesn't get any help from me, Idiot?

Read my next post and watch the video clip

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On 2021-11-15 4:54 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 1:58:43 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 4:54 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to
shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time
Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/





Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject
them after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to
that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper
app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting
from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep"
command. Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer
anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty
slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities
unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I
didn't WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups.
It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA
Trump Syndrome.

You really can't figure out why the guy who called me "idiot" when he
got his facts wrong now doesn't get any help from me, Idiot?

Read my next post and watch the video clip

Because you'd never falsify anything, Idiot?

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On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 2:56:23 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-15 4:54 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 1:58:43 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 4:54 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to
shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time
Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/





Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject
them after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to
that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper
app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting
from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep"
command. Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer
anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty
slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities
unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I
didn't WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups.
It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA
Trump Syndrome.

You really can't figure out why the guy who called me "idiot" when he
got his facts wrong now doesn't get any help from me, Idiot?

Read my next post and watch the video clip

Because you'd never falsify anything, Idiot?

I don't, but you do.

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to delete the Time Machine partition and
format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

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On 2021-11-18 6:52 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 2:56:23 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-15 4:54 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Monday, November 15, 2021 at 1:58:43 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 4:54 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:13:02 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-14 8:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 1:00:47 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-13 8:32 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

I tried to manually eject my external drives prior to
shutdown and one fails to eject. It's the one with Time
Machine on it.

Seems to be a common problem:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/taking-a-long-time-to-eject-time-machine-disk.2269534/





Any suggestions Alan?

I suggest you set out to find a problem online and did.

Also, if you're shutting the system down, then you can eject
them after it's down.

Idiot.

A little more Google searching and I found (no thanks to
that-so-not-a-guru-or-expert and Liarboy Alan Baker) a helper
app called Mountain. It controls volume mounting and un-mounting >>>>>>> from the menu bar. I has a one-click "Unmount All and Sleep"
command. Seems to work. Anybody (but Alan who can never offer
anything helpful) have a better solution? This one is pretty
slick. The menu bar icon it uses is the same as Disk Utilities
unmount.

I have such a solution, Idiot. Mine's called "Semulov".

So it's not that I couldn't give you a solution:

It's that you've made yourself so thoroughly unpleasant that I
didn't WANT to.

You might want to consider WHY that is...

...Idiot.

Why? I've seen your obnoxious and abusive posts in other newsgroups. >>>>> It's just you doing your thing to anybody who dares disagree. AKA
Trump Syndrome.

You really can't figure out why the guy who called me "idiot" when he
got his facts wrong now doesn't get any help from me, Idiot?

Read my next post and watch the video clip

Because you'd never falsify anything, Idiot?

I don't, but you do.

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to delete the Time Machine partition

and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.


So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

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On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 9:52:26 AM UTC-5, Thomas E. wrote:

...

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major,
but a bother.

I wasn't aware of any formats that can't be wiped & replaced on another OS. Google suggests that Windows does support wiping a Mac HDD partition:

<https://www.howtogeek.com/195530/how-to-convert-a-mac-formatted-drive-to-a-windows-drive/>


-hh

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Alan <nope@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

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-hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 9:52:26 AM UTC-5, Thomas E. wrote:

...

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 Tb
Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major,
but a bother.

I wasn't aware of any formats that can't be wiped & replaced on another OS. Google suggests that Windows does support wiping a Mac HDD partition:

<https://www.howtogeek.com/195530/how-to-convert-a-mac-formatted-drive-to-a-windows-drive/>

It is easy. Disk Management can do it. I have done this. Just remove
the Mac partition and expand the Windows partition.

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On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <nope@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other >>> partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

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On 2021-11-18 12:28 p.m., -hh wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 9:52:26 AM UTC-5, Thomas E. wrote:

...

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 Tb
Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major,
but a bother.

I wasn't aware of any formats that can't be wiped & replaced on another OS. Google suggests that Windows does support wiping a Mac HDD partition:

<https://www.howtogeek.com/195530/how-to-convert-a-mac-formatted-drive-to-a-windows-drive/>

There is a reason I'm not calling him "Idiot"...

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Alan <nope@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <nope@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other >>>> partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to >>>> delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

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On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to >>>> delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions >>> it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

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On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to >>>> delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions >>> it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is generally clueless.

Bob, I do know how to remove that partition. Think about it. The Mac was bricked. The Time Machine is a on 2 Tb of a 4 Tb usb hard drive. Time Machine is formatted such that my Windows machine does not even see it. So, my solution is to take the drive to
the school where I teach, mount it drive on a Mac, remove the Time machine partition, and format the entire 4 Tb in exFAT. Then I can bring it home and format it in NTSF if I want to. Easy. The problem is I do not have a computer here with software on it
that let's me see the Time Machine. Maybe Partition Magic or similar would work. Maybe some Terminal command will do it. Why buy software or otherwise mess around when 10 minutes after class and a visit to the IT department can fix it?

And yes, I did try formatting the drive in Windows. File Manager only sees the 2 Tb exfAT partition. Believe it or not, Time Machine and Windows seem to be incompatible.

Idiots, all of you.

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On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other >>>>>> partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to >>>>>> delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions >>>>> it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off... >>>

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive
problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to >> remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

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On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

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On 2021-11-20 7:55 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other >>>>>> partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to >>>>>> delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions >>>>> it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off... >>>

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive
problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to >> remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

Bob, I do know how to remove that partition. Think about it. The Mac was bricked. The Time Machine is a on 2 Tb of a 4 Tb usb hard drive. Time Machine is formatted such that my Windows machine does not even see it. So, my solution is to take the drive

to the school where I teach, mount it drive on a Mac, remove the Time machine partition, and format the entire 4 Tb in exFAT. Then I can bring it home and format it in NTSF if I want to. Easy. The problem is I do not have a computer here with software on
it that let's me see the Time Machine. Maybe Partition Magic or similar would work. Maybe some Terminal command will do it. Why buy software or otherwise mess around when 10 minutes after class and a visit to the IT department can fix it?

And yes, I did try formatting the drive in Windows. File Manager only sees the 2 Tb exfAT partition. Believe it or not, Time Machine and Windows seem to be incompatible.

Idiots, all of you.

Believe it or not, there are tools other than File Manager.... ...Idiot.

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On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote: >>>> Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2 >>>>>>>> Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions >>>>>>> it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>>>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off... >>>>>

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >>>> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to >>>> remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

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On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 10:30:37 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:55 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is
generally clueless.

Bob, I do know how to remove that partition. Think about it. The Mac was bricked. The Time Machine is a on 2 Tb of a 4 Tb usb hard drive. Time Machine is formatted such that my Windows machine does not even see it. So, my solution is to take the

drive to the school where I teach, mount it drive on a Mac, remove the Time machine partition, and format the entire 4 Tb in exFAT. Then I can bring it home and format it in NTSF if I want to. Easy. The problem is I do not have a computer here with
software on it that let's me see the Time Machine. Maybe Partition Magic or similar would work. Maybe some Terminal command will do it. Why buy software or otherwise mess around when 10 minutes after class and a visit to the IT department can fix it?

And yes, I did try formatting the drive in Windows. File Manager only sees the 2 Tb exfAT partition. Believe it or not, Time Machine and Windows seem to be incompatible.

Idiots, all of you.

Believe it or not, there are tools other than File Manager.... ...Idiot.

Snit's computer has more scripts than Mike Easter's. Snit wins. Mike Easter loses. Which gives Snit better productivity, efficiency, and error-reduction. Kaspersky was initially designed and transcoded using a pirated copy of Eclipse,
in Visual Basic 6.

Mike Easter suffers from paranoid fantasies so, to him, everything, even randomized bot posts, are "abuses". Who does not know this? Of course my earliest statement stands proper and correct. At one point, he said a COLA denizen was "obsessing" over him, which was identified as him using his flood script to "boost" his "mentions" count. Until Mike Easter offers up his 'superior'
FOSS system for review, there is no competition, just giddy assertions.

Well... like I said, I have a number of reasons for believing the flooder
is Mike Easter, who is a Swift programmer but I don't know if it could be
used to get by Google's spam filters.


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On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 10:41:55 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote: >>>> Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>>>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >>>> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is >>>> generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

BTW, I've already proved that his use of "herd" to describe Snit Glasser
is rude, since he's likening them to farmed livestock. The only way that
I could forgive AZ Code's constant need for maintenance because of incompatibility
concerns or badly written updates is if I consumed the steady amount of pipe dreams its ads have been feeding Theo since 2015.

Theo is being controlled by Snit Glasser.

Narcissistic Bigot AKA Steve Carroll.

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Dustin Cook is a functionally illiterate fraud

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On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote: >>>> Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>>>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >>>> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is >>>> generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized. An idiot would not be able to have the problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10 seconds. The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a
simple right-click/format/confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and back.

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On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote: >>>>>> Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before >>>>>>> you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive >>>>>> problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is >>>>>> generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized.

No, Idiot.

There was NO apology.

An idiot would not be able to have the problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10 seconds. The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple right-click/format/

confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and back.


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On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob
Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive
partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I cannot
access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to
school and use a Mac to delete the Time Machine
partition and format the whole drive. Not major,
but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one
of the partitions it contains is foreign to that OS,
Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding
obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject
command before you can disconnect an external drive from
a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had
massive problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he
doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a USB stick
leads me to conclude that he is generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk
Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something
learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging
intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized. An idiot would not be able to have the
problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management
tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10
seconds.

You're actually declaring yourself "not an idiot" because you were able
to read the simple instructions that others provided, Idiot?

The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple
right-click/format/confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other
commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There
was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and
back.

And you imagine you know what it takes to do the same thing on a Mac, Idiot?

Tell you what:

Lay it out for us.

Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

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On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 12:29:44 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious. >>>>>>>>

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive
problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is >>>>>> generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized.

No, Idiot.

There was NO apology.

An idiot would not be able to have the problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10 seconds. The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple right-click/format/

confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and back.



AZ Code is only free if your time has no value.

Pro tip: You can not go into a party, gulp down all the sauce, bang all
the pets, nab the wine, and technicolor yawn in the foyer without being loathed. I sometimes reverse engineer a monkey with my brain. Golly, what
was your first hintadoodle? The ones which claimed it was and that are clearly using faulty heuristics to make the resolution, or was it something else? Please do be specific. If Foolish David calls getting his ass *kicked hard* time and time again for over a decade by numerous people (and completely ruining his name and any reason for people to trust anything he has to say
- until hell freezes over) good 'trolling', then yeah... he is a first-class troll. I don't personally agree with that definition, I use another term.
I call Foolish David a complete moron.


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On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:33:17 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob
Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive
partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I cannot
access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to
school and use a Mac to delete the Time Machine
partition and format the whole drive. Not major,
but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one
of the partitions it contains is foreign to that OS,
Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding
obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject
command before you can disconnect an external drive from
a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had >>>>>> massive problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he
doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a USB stick
leads me to conclude that he is generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk
Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something
learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging
intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized. An idiot would not be able to have the
problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management
tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10
seconds.

You're actually declaring yourself "not an idiot" because you were able
to read the simple instructions that others provided, Idiot?

The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple right-click/format/confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other
commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There
was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and
back.

And you imagine you know what it takes to do the same thing on a Mac, Idiot?

Tell you what:

Lay it out for us.

Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

Open Disk Utility and format from there. I did that to convert my NTFS 4 tb drive to 2 partitions: 2 tb Time Machine and a 2 tb exFAT. I cannot remember all the steps, but it was not difficult. In Windows I selected the drive and reformatted the entire 4
tb in about 5 seconds.

But, if all you want to do it reformat a drive or partition that Windows File Manager can see you do not need to open any additional utilities. Right-Click on the drive and select Format.

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On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 10:51:35 AM UTC-5, Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:33:17 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

...
Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

Open Disk Utility and format from there. I did that to convert my NTFS
4 tb drive to 2 partitions: 2 tb Time Machine and a 2 tb exFAT. I cannot remember all the steps, but it was not difficult. In Windows I selected
the drive and reformatted the entire 4 tb in about 5 seconds.

Given how infrequently one should be expected to reformat entire drives,
the time required to complete the overall task is pretty insignificant.

But, if all you want to do it reformat a drive or partition that Windows
File Manager can see you do not need to open any additional utilities. Right-Click on the drive and select Format.

Given the downside risk of a misclick resulting in catastrophic data loss,
is it really a wise idea to have its UI be that readily accessible?


-hh

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On 2021-11-22 7:51 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:33:17 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan
wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob
Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB
drive partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I
cannot access that partition without a Mac. The
other partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it
in to school and use a Mac to delete the Time
Machine partition and format the whole drive.
Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if
one of the partitions it contains is foreign to
that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're
doing?

I would say the answer to that question is
bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an
Eject command before you can disconnect an external
drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and
had massive problems with it so I returned it” thread.
That he doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a
USB stick leads me to conclude that he is generally
clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk
Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and
something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots",
Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging
intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who
actually understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized. An idiot would not be able to have the
problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk
Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in
under 10 seconds.

You're actually declaring yourself "not an idiot" because you were
able to read the simple instructions that others provided, Idiot?

The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple
right-click/format/confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other
commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone.
There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away
and back.

And you imagine you know what it takes to do the same thing on a
Mac, Idiot?

Tell you what:

Lay it out for us.

Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

Open Disk Utility and format from there. I did that to convert my
NTFS 4 tb drive to 2 partitions: 2 tb Time Machine and a 2 tb exFAT.
I cannot remember all the steps, but it was not difficult. In Windows
I selected the drive and reformatted the entire 4 tb in about 5
seconds.

But, if all you want to do it reformat a drive or partition that
Windows File Manager can see you do not need to open any additional utilities. Right-Click on the drive and select Format.

And how often do you need to do this?

In MacOS, it takes me 10 seconds to your notional 5.

And no, you do not need to reformat a drive to get your latest flight
software updates.

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On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 12:29:44 AM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB drive partitioned with a 2
Tb Time Machine. I cannot access that partition without a Mac. The other
partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it in to school and use a Mac to
delete the Time Machine partition and format the whole drive. Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if one of the partitions
it contains is foreign to that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're doing?

I would say the answer to that question is bleeding obvious. >>>>>>>>

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an Eject command before
you can disconnect an external drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and had massive
problems with it so I returned it” thread. That he doesn’t know how to
remove a partition from a USB stick leads me to conclude that he is >>>>>> generally clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots", Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who actually
understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized.

No, Idiot.

There was NO apology.

An idiot would not be able to have the problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in under 10 seconds. The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple right-click/format/

confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone. There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away and back.



Chris's indictment is misplaced first of all, and not correct second of
all. Is Doomsdrzej aka Sliver Slimer destined to be just as much of a dishonest
liar as Chris is already known as being?

Obviously, the lone thing that concerns Chris is appearing "moral", and
if he can't have that he will create socks to successfully kick truly honest people down, which is annoying as hell. Chris is often seen saying "CANNOT
BE FOUND" when it comes to details on the web where info does exist... but Chris is just too ignorant and/or too in over your head to deduce any information
he sees.

Anyone who groks this thread knows the flood bot is not spawned in the
way Doomsdrzej aka Sliver Slimer is suggesting, and most of them are clearly hand written.

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Dustin Cook: Functional Illiterate Fraud

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On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 9:40:00 AM UTC-7, -hh wrote:

On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 10:51:35 AM UTC-5, Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:33:17 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

...
Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

Open Disk Utility and format from there. I did that to convert my NTFS
4 tb drive to 2 partitions: 2 tb Time Machine and a 2 tb exFAT. I cannot remember all the steps, but it was not difficult. In Windows I selected
the drive and reformatted the entire 4 tb in about 5 seconds.

Given how infrequently one should be expected to reformat entire drives,
the time required to complete the overall task is pretty insignificant.

But, if all you want to do it reformat a drive or partition that Windows File Manager can see you do not need to open any additional utilities. Right-Click on the drive and select Format.

Given the downside risk of a misclick resulting in catastrophic data loss,
is it really a wise idea to have its UI be that readily accessible?

-hh

From what I've seen it looks like the flood script is getting better.

Gregory Hall must appreciate that Wolffan can go get Access, right, sicko? Meanwhile, anyone can just ignore him, which renders _his_ usenet group
attack harmless, just like Gregory Hall. Gregory Hall's posts are in fact perfectly unfair. There is zero doubt that as soon as any former 'blocked person' does anything to confuse the inferior milksop's feelings that they
will be reblocked. Plenty of people keep replying to Gregory Hall. To be
clear, I can't chide Wolffan for getting angry but I can not get why he
comes here other than to mess with Gregory Hall. Wolffan is better at conversations
as is common in a non-trolling venue and advocacy forums clearly are not
it. I see you are choosing to bask in Gregory Hall's area of sock puppets
and deep state ops over a debate that would have been a shard more 'honest'. There are ever reducing reasons to come to this cesspool and absurd attacks like this highlights why that's true. What does it take to end this?


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him. He clearly wants the attention"
Steve Carroll, making the dumbest comment ever uttered.

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On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 12:17:42 PM UTC-7, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-22 7:51 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 2:33:17 AM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 5:46 p.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:41:55 PM UTC-5, Alan wrote:

On 2021-11-20 9:38 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at 12:31:07 PM UTC-5, Alan
wrote:

On 2021-11-20 7:59 a.m., Thomas E. wrote:

On Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 11:24:32 PM UTC-5, Bob
Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

On 2021-11-18 4:03 p.m., Bob Campbell wrote:

Alan <no...@nope.com> wrote:

Now I have another issue. I have a 4 Tb USB
drive partitioned with a 2 Tb Time Machine. I
cannot access that partition without a Mac. The
other partition is exFAT. Now I have to take it
in to school and use a Mac to delete the Time
Machine partition and format the whole drive.
Not major, but a bother.

So you can't format the whole drive on Windows if
one of the partitions it contains is foreign to
that OS, Idiot?

Or do you just not have a clue what you're
doing?

I would say the answer to that question is
bleeding obvious.

This is the idiot who thinks you need to issue an
Eject command before you can disconnect an external
drive from a system that is powered off...

I know.

Frankly, I don’t believe his entire “I bought a Mac and >>>>>>>> had massive problems with it so I returned it” thread.
That he doesn’t know how to remove a partition from a
USB stick leads me to conclude that he is generally
clueless.

Well, I just read more of the thread. Never used Disk
Management. Thanks for the help. Problem solved and
something learned.

And the gracious apology for calling everyone "idiots",
Idiot?

Granted, but lack of knowledge is no basis for judging
intelligence.

Says the guy who literally was just calling those of who
actually understood what was going on, "idiots"...

...right, Idiot?

For which I apologized. An idiot would not be able to have the
problem fixed in 10 seconds after opening the Windows Disk
Management tool for the first time ever. I did that, literally in
under 10 seconds.

You're actually declaring yourself "not an idiot" because you were
able to read the simple instructions that others provided, Idiot?

The entire drive was NTFS-formatted with a simple
right-click/format/confirm on the drive. Unlike a Mac no other
commands required. Time Machine and it's partition was gone.
There was nothing else on the drive so no need to move files away
and back.

And you imagine you know what it takes to do the same thing on a
Mac, Idiot?

Tell you what:

Lay it out for us.

Since you just said, "Unlike a Mac", describe the process of
reformatting a drive on a Mac.

Open Disk Utility and format from there. I did that to convert my
NTFS 4 tb drive to 2 partitions: 2 tb Time Machine and a 2 tb exFAT.
I cannot remember all the steps, but it was not difficult. In Windows
I selected the drive and reformatted the entire 4 tb in about 5
seconds.

But, if all you want to do it reformat a drive or partition that
Windows File Manager can see you do not need to open any additional utilities. Right-Click on the drive and select Format.

And how often do you need to do this?

In MacOS, it takes me 10 seconds to your notional 5.

And no, you do not need to reformat a drive to get your latest flight software updates.

More distortion by Peeler. Snit Glasser Michael did not deny uploading
it, but he did not upload it to Vine. Peeler did that, in an page that
uses his information.... and he did it because he is obsessed with Peeler kicking his ass like a line of Rockette girls.

Peeler must know that anyone can go get mySQL, right, medhead? And, of
course, anyone can can set a KF, which renders his trolling meaningless,
just like Peeler ;) Already moved on from that. Keep up!


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Dustin Cook is a functionally illiterate fraud

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