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apfs container gone

  1. M

    macOS no longer boots after shrinking a partition

    On a late-2012 Mini, an APFS container held both Mojave and, via OCLP, Ventura. Linux was installed on a separate partition (Zorin). At startup, I was able to boot all three systems using the OCLP boot manager. Then I had the (bad) idea to shrink the APFS container to make room for another...
  2. J

    Sudden trouble mounting external HD -A good one to fix-

    Hi all, I have an external HD formatted APFS and encrypted with file vault 2. I never had any issues, once you plug the HD you type the FV2 password and works like it should. I used it yesterday and then again 5 hours later: this time I entered the password and I got asked again like I typed it...
  3. jwayne019

    APFS Container is gone! Help Please :/

    Hey there, So I partitioned my SSD to make room for Windows Bootcamp. Everything went smoothly until I was taken into windows and asked to format the partition that windows would be installed on. I installed windows and everything worked fine. UNTIL I restarted my computer to get into OSX, I was...