Hi, With respect to formatting the drive. It kind of depends on if it is already formatted from the factory. If it is, it may be formatted and show up on your Desktop, but be formatted in a format that is read only to the Mac. I suggest that you do the following before connecting the drive to your Mac:
• go to the Desktop. • press cmd-comma to bring up Desktop Preferences. • if the General tab is not selected, select it. • make sure that the checkbox to show external drives on your Desktop is checked. • close this window. • connect the drive. • follow the prompts if any appear. • if the drive simply shows up on the Desktop, then do the following extra steps. • make sure you’re in the Finder by pressing VO-shift-d. • press cmd-shift-u to open the Utilities folder. • open the Disk Utility app. • in the table, locate and select your external drive. • stop interacting with the table and VO-left to the Toolbar. Interact with it. • locate the Erase button and VO-space to activate. • give the drive a name and format it as either APFS or MacOS Extended (Journaled). Then press the Erase button. After it has finished, press the Done button and quit Disk Utility. You will now have a properly formatted drive for your Mac. No matter which method you use, do make sure that it is formatted for the Mac as either MacOS Extended (Journaled) or APFS for best results on your Mac. Regarding iMovie and copying, when you create and edit these videos for YouTube, have you saved the finished version on your internal drive, or just uploaded directly to YouTube? It is better to keep a version locally, as well as uploading to YouTube in my experience. Now, if you have the exported finished copy, then that one is easy to copy and paste to the external drive. The actual iMovie product is more complicated as it is comprised of both library and iMovie Project components, unless things have changed lately. The drive icon will show up on your Desktop if you set the Finder Preferences as I’ve suggested above, so copying between the internal Macintosh HD and the external is easy-peasy by the regular copy and paste processes. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jun 8, 2021, at 7:41 AM, FIOGKOS <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote: > > Hi everybody hope you’re doing well. I have a 2013 late I Mac running > Catalina with a 1 TB hard drive. > I am starting my own YouTube channel with cooking episodes. I am using iMovie > to edit and join my Clips together. I am using my iPhone to tape my cooking > shows and transferring the clips to the iMac. I have finished 14 episodes and > my iMac hard drive is already half full so I bought a 4 TB hard drive from > the Apple store. The man at the Apple Store told me the hard drive needs > formatting but he said that when I plug it in the on-screen instructions are > pretty straightforward. My first question is that correct? Do I need to know > anything about using the drive for the first time? 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