Seeing as I was not entirely helpful to begin with on this thread (although I did find myself thoroughly amusing as did some of the other fools on here) I did a little bit of research on the issue. Not sure how much of this will help but anywho…
It may be a permissions issue. That would explain why the drive is recognized but you and/or traktor are not seeing it. If you can access it look at the permissions on the drive How you do that on a Mac is beyond me but there are plenty of people who can help you if you don’t know. You need to make sure the the R(read) and W(Write) permissions for your EXT drive are set for OWNER, GROUP and OTHERS.
Have a look at that and report back and we will see what we can do to help…
When I had my Mac, in Preferences / NTFS , I had to turn something off or on (I can’t remember which), and then it showed up in Traktor. I will try to find the bookmark I had that helped solved this issue for me.
Take a look anyhow.. it might be obvious, but I don’t have Mac anymore to check.
I recently did something similar on my iMac… Ext hdd NTFS disappeared in traktor after I installed Paragon NTFS… Or deleted the system volume information folder… Or the recycler…
Here’s what did work for me…
I moved all my music to my iMac and completely wiped the drive… Then I reformatted the drive as NTFS… Didn’t show up… Tried Mac journal… It showed in traktor… Then tried Fat 32… It also showed up…
Now I can only guess as to whether or not Paragon NTFS and perhaps deleting the system volume along with the recycler may have messed it up… My Bad!!!
I will however be doing more testing today… I will post when I know more