Time Machine can only back up volumes formatted either as HFS+ or the newer APFS format. Time Machine volumes must be HFS+ formatted, listed in Disk Utility as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”. While I’ve covered this in previous columns, it’s worth a quick refresher, given how many people are apparently currently dealing with this. That’s because the drive isn’t formatted in a way that Time Machine can back up files from. (Open the Time Machine preference pane and click Options to see that list.) Many people have asked why their external drive appears and is grayed-out in the Time Machine preference pane’s excluded list. To judge by a recent spate of email, Mac users are using Windows and Unix/Linux compatible drives more than ever.
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