Now, if you have TimeMachine backup, it is also easy. It will take serious time (spinning drive is limited to at most 100MB/seconds and it likely slower). Drag and drop the folder with music from old disk onto the new disk. When that is done, connect the old drive with the music to BigSur computerģ. Connect new drive to BigSur computer and format as APFS, use encryption of you want it encrypted.Ģ. It may look like file (may be.) but it is folder and it is something you can simply copy. I do not understand why you want to make it this complicated.
This whole plan looks like major waste of effort and disaster in making.
So my question is - will my plan work to clone from the HDD to the SSD using Disk Utility? There's a thread on SuperDuper! and CCC for Big Sur, and folks are very sad that it has not been updated yet, but I wonder if I really need anything other than Disk Utility on my MBP? The only thing is that it has to work with the Music App, but I figure if the HDD works now, then cloning it to the SSD should have the SSD mone work with the Music app just as well. So I simply thought - why not just use the Disk Utility under Big Sur and accomplish this - all I need to do is clone one drive to the other, and it's not a startup disk or anything.
#Third party disk utilities for mac password#
There's one additional wrinkle on this, is I want to password protect the SSD, so my idea was to simply create a password protected dmg on the SSD and clone the HDD to that dmg.Īnyhow, I have an excellent app from SuperDuper! which I've used for years to clone and back up my HDDs, but I cannot use it for this project, because apparently SD! does not work with Big Sur as yet, nor does CCC fully. Then I was going to use Disk Utility "Restore" function on my MBP to clone the HDD to the SSD. Here was my plan - since the source HDD is on HFS+ Journalled, I'd formate the SSD to also the same HFS+ Journalled. So my idea was to clone my old HDD to the new SSD so that if needed I have a backup instead of just relying on an old spinning drive. Now, I want to back up this drive and actually transfer everything over to a new SSD I bought the 2TB SanDisk Extreme Portable. It has previously been used by me on my late 2009 iMac and High Sierra. I have managed to get it to work on my MBP. I have a very large music collection on an external drive - 1.82TB, and that includes the Music library. I have a new M1 MBP (8GB RAM / 256GB SSD) and I'm on BS 11.1.
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