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Just as a last update.

Got the new drive in today. Got it formatted to APFS.
FFS pushed a full backup to this drive from the image drive I have 1.25TB in 20 minutes.

NTFS on Mac strikes again
You could backup the data, reformat the drive, then put the data back. This saves having to buy another drive. exFAT is supported on MacOS and Windows, otherwise APFS/HFS+ are MacOS only


That's not a bad suggestion, but this backup drive is glacially slow. It's OK to ...

Discovered the issue.

The external drive was previously used on a windows 11 machine and was formatted in NTFS format. Since NTFS is not fully compatible with MacOS, there lies the issue.

I’ve ordered another SSD, will format it in APFS and try again.

Receiving the below error:
Cannot read directory "/Volumes/BLP Backup Drive/Other/Audio".

EINVAL: Invalid argument [readdir]

It occurs with multiple folders.
I can access all these in Finder and Forklift.

It is an external hard drive that I want to use for backing up my image archive.

Not ...