Lightroom photos to external hard drive

Question

I recently got an external hard drive (24TB) to store my photos, since my MacBook only has 1TB. I set the hard drive up through Lightroom since that is what the YouTube tutorials recommended. After set up (external showing in Lightroom), I moved over (drag & drop) roughly 3700 photos from my Macbook to the , which was roughly 200 GB on my Mac, my external is now showing full 23.7/24TB. What did I do wrong? And how can I fix this?

KR Seals · Answer

Try using the Apple Disk Utility to take a look at the new drive. You can find that in Finder - Apps - Utilities - Disk Utility.

Did you specifically format it for use with Mac? That would be the APFS format

Check to see how it is formatted and especially look to see if there are more than one partition (virtual drives) on the drive. It would be useful to post a full screen shot here of what Disk Utility shows about the new drive.

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