Creative COW | Michael Angelo | Activity https://creativecow.net/members/michaelangelo/activity/ Activity feed for Michael Angelo. Mon, 04 May 2026 02:29:17 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.5.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 78edf87f7c02f59cc9bebf8c9dea67b7 Michael Angelo replied to the discussion Finder say FCPX libraries are larger than external hard drive, unable to backup in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/finder-say-fcpx-libraries-are-larger-than-external-hard-drive-unable-to-backup/#post-2461846 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:11:26 +0000 Reply to Finder say FCPX libraries are larger than external hard drive, unable to backup

Appreciate the feedback, this is related to symlinks, APFS vs HFS+ file systems, and HDD vs SSD hardware. Seems unavoidable unless all your drives are SSD APFS format. To understand and take a deeper dive into this challenge, check out this apple discussions thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255413803?sortBy=best&answerId=260067272022

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]]> a320f6240a6a0da42396431ee2f56271 Michael Angelo started the discussion Finder say FCPX libraries are larger than external hard drive, unable to backup in the forum Apple Final Cut Pro https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/finder-say-fcpx-libraries-are-larger-than-external-hard-drive-unable-to-backup/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:43:51 +0000 Finder say FCPX libraries are larger than external hard drive, unable to backup

Finder says FCPX libraries are larger than external hard drive, unable to backup drive! Maybe it has something to do with FCPX libraries being first created as far back as 2012? (documentary project still in progress)

External Hard Drive = 12TB GRAID RAID 0, finder says drive has 21TB+ data

Many thanks in advance for any guidance!

Michael

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