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If theres ANY chance you need the drive for any other machine then dont use APFS.

In theory ( at least for Catalina, as IDK about Big Sur ), External Drives ( even Time Machine ) should be formatted as such.

I decided that Ill probably format it as MacOS Extended (Journaled).

I went into Disk Utility, chose the drive, and clicked on erase.

It started to erase but then there was an error message that the drive could not be fully erased.

Any idea what may have happened Its not a big deal for I was going to erase the drive anyway.

Especially if one is not very familiar with those types of things.

That said, if it is a Flash Drive that is 32GB or less, you could try formatting is as: MS-DOS (FAT32).

That might work. - - - What was the Flash Drive formatted as by default Before you began the process yourself actions 2020-Sep-3 6:39 pm lordpuffer Hes back in town Premium Member join:2004-09-19 Henderson, NV T-Mobile Cox HSI ARRIS CM8200 Linksys Velop MX5300.

Its a 256GB drive and should have properly formatted to ExFAT.

If you can see it on the Mac Desktop, and drag and drop files to it, and play them, then IMO, you do not need to reformat it.

I have old USB Flash Drives (32GB and below), and they are all formatted by default as MS-DOS (FAT32 16).

I had about 150GB of data on it and I figured that I would erase it this way.

That might work. - - - What was the Flash Drive formatted as by default Before you began the process yourself I would always go with exFAT.

It has a large cluster size which means small files can take a disproportionally large amount of space.

It also has a file size limit of 4GB.

Absolutely. FAT32 is useful only for compatibility reasons with older, non computer devices.

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