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KatjoyGuntherrr
KatjoyGuntherrr
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December 26, 2018
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Using Samsung T5 SSD as a scratch disk

  • December 26, 2018
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Hello!

How does one format a T5 SSD as a scratch disk? Tried to "journal" the SSD so that my macbook recognizes it. Not sure if that would help. But I am incapable of partitioning the SSD in Disk Utility. Not sure how to get around that.

In Photoshop, under Preferences and Scratch Disks, the only hard drive visible is my internal one.

I am working with Photoshop CC 2019. Absolute newbie. Working off a Macbook Air. Bought a portable Samsung SSD T5 when the "scratch disks are full" message kept appearing.

How does one format an SSD so that it appears as an option under scratch disks?

Thanks,

Kat

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    melissapiccone
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    melissapicconeCommunity Expert
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    November 29, 2021

    I'm running Monterey and could not format my SanDisk. I had to do it on my old computer running Catalina. Just tossing it out there incase it's something similar for you. 

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    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    November 29, 2021

    I have had similar problems with a different brand of SSD enclosure in macOS 12 Monterey. The same enclosure works fine on other systems. That your SSD works perfectly in macOS 10.15 Catalina is very similar to what I saw with mine. There seem to be some bugs in this area in Monterey that Apple needs to fix. It seems to affect some brands but not others, so the problem may be specific to certain enclosure chipsets:

     

    Monterey struggling with External SSD (long thread in the Apple Discussions forum)

      rob day
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      rob dayCommunity Expert
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      December 26, 2018

      Mac OS Extended (Journaled) should work:

      J
      jaysboymd
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      November 29, 2021

      Having the same issue, I see above, but how do you reformat the Samsung Drive to 2TScratch that includes Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  How do you do that?

      TheDigitalDog
      TheDigitalDog
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      November 29, 2021
      @jaysboymd wrote:

      Having the same issue, I see above, but how do you reformat the Samsung Drive to 2TScratch that includes Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  How do you do that?

      Use Disk Utility, click on the drive, the Erase 'button' (fifth from left seen darkly below) then this dialog appears. Select and off you go (FWIW, I have a T5, wasn't an issue):

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