This is something that happens in two Apple apps, but it seems to me like more of macOS problem. When I open FCPX or Photos, my Samsung T5 external SSD drive shows as a device they both can import from, like a camera:
Now, in Photos, it doesn't bug me at all because it just shows there, but it doesn't slow down things at all. However, in FCPX, I find myself having to wait several seconds for that progress pie chart to finish, during which I cannot select anything or do anything. So after several times, it gets annoying, especially if I need to import footage ASAP.
Since this happens in Photos too, it seems to me that it's a macOS problem, that somewhere in the system this drive is labeled as a camera instead of an external drive. I'm saying that because I have other drives, SSD and mechanical, and none of them show as cameras, they all show as drives.
This Samsung SSD, as well as all the others I use on a regular basis, are all GUID and APFS formatted, with the exception of some ext2 drive for when I have use it on my PC as well, but most of my drives are APFS, this Samsung T5 certainly is.
I didn't see anything in Disk Utility that allows me to assign a kind of device to any drive.
I've been searching online for this for a week and can't find anything on it. Any ideas on how to make this drive be recognized as external drive like the rest.
Machine is a Mac Studio Ultra.
Now, in Photos, it doesn't bug me at all because it just shows there, but it doesn't slow down things at all. However, in FCPX, I find myself having to wait several seconds for that progress pie chart to finish, during which I cannot select anything or do anything. So after several times, it gets annoying, especially if I need to import footage ASAP.
Since this happens in Photos too, it seems to me that it's a macOS problem, that somewhere in the system this drive is labeled as a camera instead of an external drive. I'm saying that because I have other drives, SSD and mechanical, and none of them show as cameras, they all show as drives.
This Samsung SSD, as well as all the others I use on a regular basis, are all GUID and APFS formatted, with the exception of some ext2 drive for when I have use it on my PC as well, but most of my drives are APFS, this Samsung T5 certainly is.
I didn't see anything in Disk Utility that allows me to assign a kind of device to any drive.
I've been searching online for this for a week and can't find anything on it. Any ideas on how to make this drive be recognized as external drive like the rest.
Machine is a Mac Studio Ultra.
