j_made_it wrote:@garfy there was no option for APFS. The one I selected was OS X Extended (Journaled)
Strange. Still, there's not much between APFS and OSX Extended, so you shouldn't notice a difference.
j_made_it wrote:I think since my SSD was a plug and go it was reading window files too somehow and displaying them inside the plugin's sound library.
Generally, off the shelf external drives are formatted for Windows users (bigger user base I guess) and they should be formatted for macOS use. I've got a feeling you're correct in what was happening, although I've never seen it before. In theory, your Mac should've just ignored those file, but stranger things have happened.
Glad you've got it all sorted in the end.
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