Copying items - about 6 days [I Have a Mac]

well that's what it says. The plan is, i'm emptying a hard drive to another and then i will use the first drive to create a time machine copy and then i will totally erase my mac. Never done so the last ~ 11 years i got it.. but lately it's really really slow so i figured it needs that. I can't get a new one for the moment. But 6 days? 🥴 I hope it'll change its mind as time passes by..

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Mordi · 31-35, M

6 days sounds crazy. Is it a 100TB drive? 🤔

elafina · 36-40, F

@Mordi nope i'm copying an external drive of 500GB to a 2TB drive. Would it matter that the disk that the files are on is on Journal extended format while i've formatted the 2TB one to exFat? maybe it's my old usb ports, i can't tell but hey, it now says 5 days 😂

Mordi · 31-35, M

Yeah, I think that would make a huge difference. ExFat works on several operating systems, is that why you chose it? Even with USB 2, it shouldn't take more than a day at the very most.

elafina · 36-40, F

@Mordi yes i choose this because i want to be able and use the drive on my friends pc's if and whenever needed too. It's still stuck on 5 days, i hope at some point it will jump faster, will let u know what will happen in the end!

Mordi · 31-35, M

Personally, I'd recommend partitioning the drive. You could have like 80% as the Mac OS journaled and then 20% exFat. Of course I don't know how much and what kind of files you need to use on the PC. It might require you to constantly move whatever necessary files on your Mac from the journaled partition to the exFat when you need them on the Windows. 🤷‍♂️

elafina · 36-40, F

@Mordi ok plans changed, i did partitioned the hard drive and let now the time machine-partition handle the backup instead

Mordi · 31-35, M

How's the time estimate now?

elafina · 36-40, F

@Mordi about 10 hours