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Programs keep waiting for external disk to spin up - how to ignore disk?
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Mar 15, 2026918 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Like many Mac users I have an external Firewire disk hooked up to my Mac to be used by Time Machine. This works very well, backup-wise. The problem is that very often when I use a Mac application and try to open a file, the file selection dialogue window hangs until the external disk has spun up. I…
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If an acceptable solution to you is having the drive not spin down in the first place, you can set than in System Preferences -> Energy Saver. Then you won't have to worry about it spinning up and halting the system. I don't think you can change the…
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