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apfs

  1. labyrinth153

    APFS and Fusion Drives

    I have been a bleeding edge tester for a long time until I switched to Mac. I settled down a little, but when I am told "fusion drives don't support apfs" I take that as a challenge. Well.. They were right. It doesn't. My iMac 27" 2015 had a kernel panic during the conversion process, and I was...
  2. T

    Preboot folder in /Volumes: purpose and safe to delete?

    I have two Preboot (Preboot and Preboot 1) folders in /Volumes. They are the same size. Quick googling indicated that they are APFS related. My question is: what purpose do they serve and is it safe to delete them?
  3. W

    HFS+ Drive Goes to AFS When Encrypted?

    I did the conversion to High Sierra last night with minimal issues and then wanted to do a backup using Carbon Copy Cloner. My backups go to an external hard drive partitioned so that it can clone the drive running the OS and 2 external drives. The backup external hard drive is partitioned and...
  4. E

    ACL permissions under APFS High Sierra doesn't work

    Following problem under High Sierra with APFS: I create a folder with these permissions: drwxrwx--- 2 root admin 64B 27 Sep 01:09 test no acl is applied. With my user account "user" logged in the Finder.app showed up the folder with a "red no entry sign" and I have no access to this...
  5. A

    Any Success Creating a New Boot Camp Partition in High Sierra?

    Subject about covers it. I'm running into errors trying to create a partition, as are many others. Has anyone had any success getting a clean Boot Camp install up and running in High Sierra? I had Boot Camp running fine beforehand, but ran into install issues, and on a hunch based on logs...
  6. phillytim

    10.13: Convert HDD from HFS+ to APFS

    Greetings! How do you convert an HDD over to APFS after upgrade? I have a single, standard SATA hard drive in my 2011 MBPro, and of course the in-place upgrade to High Sierra did not auto-convert it over to APFS. I went to Disk Utility, but the "Convert to APFS" was grayed-out (unusable). I...
  7. khaidir77

    what format for secondary harddrive Mac Os High Sierra Beta Macbook Pro

    hie there i would like to know regarding format on my secondary harddrive on my macbook pro.At this moment my main ssd drive is on APFS format & my secondary drive im using 2TB Seagate Firecuda SSHD...should i format the SSHD into APFS too like my main ssd drive or just leave it as it is Mac...
  8. wunderhund

    High Sierra arrives 9/25 - when will new iMac have pre-installed?

    I am hoping someone in the forum has experience of when Apple coordinates the pre-installation of a new OS with iMacs purchased through Apple's Store online. That is, when will iMacs configured through the online store come with High Sierra pre-installed? The day of the OS release? A couple...
    • wunderhund
    • Thread
    • apfs high sierra imac 2017
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: iMac
  9. rezwits

    apfs faq link

    https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/APFS_Guide/FAQ/FAQ.html Just posting this for those wondering about case sensitive and non-case sensitive for compatibility with Apps! Laters...
  10. faraone

    My mac doesn't find Macintosh HD after APFS conversion

    i converted my hd to apfs but, after the reboot my mac doesn't find Macintosh HD. I tried from disk utility but it is disappeared. Please help me. mac mini late 2012 with original hdd
  11. Doc69

    Converting encrypted hard drives to APFS?

    All my data hard drives, both internal and external on my MacPro5,1, are MacOS encrypted. Will I be able to just convert them from Mac OS Extended to APFS, or will I need to format and erase them? Also, is it advisable to convert all my data drives to APFS, including backup drives?
  12. godrifle

    APFS available on Apple SSD in external enclosure?

    I have an Apple SSD that I pulled from a MacBook Air, in a Transcend USB3 enclosure. Works like a champ. Yet, when I install High Sierra, it doesn't format it as APFS. Although early versions of HS had an option in Disk Utility to convert the drive to APFS (and it consistently failed), in the...
  13. yaroslavm

    Underallocation Detected on Main device (10.13 PB4)

    Hey guys, There is a lot of APFS erroneous-free-space talk on these forums, wonder if that is something that is related. Just moved from a 10.12 HFS+ install to a 10.13 PB4 APFS one. When running Disk Utility—both via Rescue mode and live mode—this is what I get: /dev/rdisk1s1: ** Checking...
  14. trumpetmercenary

    How long should it take to convert a normal HDD to APFS?

    I started a conversion to APFS for my time machine backup, an external Seagate Backup Plus, about 45 minutes ago. It's still stuck on the last step, "reporting pre-conversion statistics." I know converting an SSD should only take a minute or two, but I wasn't sure about normal HD's. How...
  15. L

    With APFS, will old HFS+ external drives need to be replaced?

    I'm thrilled at the idea of Apple's new file system. More stability? Faster? Better error protection? Yes please. As a video professional, under-the-hood improvements like these are way more interesting to me than the cosmetic and incremental updates of the last few versions of macOS. But quick...
  16. Antanast

    Mac will not boot

    Hi everyone. Instead of shutting down normally I kept the power button pressed and forced a shutdown. After that my mcb wont boot. It was an apfs drive and was in the process of encrypting. I am on High Sierra. I tried recovery and all sorts of things but nothing. I booted with...
    • Antanast
    • Thread
    • apfs boot error boot fail encryption
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  17. noxivs

    High Sierra won't convert my encrypted HFS+ disk to APFS

    My computer won’t convert from HFS+ to APFS. My HFS+ disk is a Fusion Drive and encrypted. I’m not sure but I was probably not presented with a conversion option during the installation process. I then tried to convert from the recovery screen and the disk management utility in the recovery mode...
  18. ZapNZs

    VMWare Fusion 8.5.8 + APFS VMs

    If you have Fusion, they just released 8.5.8 a few days ago, although it appears they are yet to publish official documentation as the release notes are blank. I just tried upgrading a Sierra VM to High Sierra with APFS as it looked like some non-English site said 8.5.8 supports it. Where as...
  19. D

    Does APFS Mean a Bigger SSD?

    Well, just as I was about to order a new 27" iMac (replacing my geriatric 2009 Mac Pro), I saw some stuff on the Apple Developers Forum that gave me pause about my configuration. I was going for a top flight configuration except I thought a 512 GB SSD would be big enough. My current MP has the...
    • dfuerpo
    • Thread
    • apfs high sierra ssd
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: iMac
  20. C

    APFS and NAS (Synology)

    Hi, Pardon my question if this seems too basic... I am currently using a NAS Synology to share and store all my files (pictures, movies mainly). What will be the impact of upgrading to High Sierra? Will it still be compatible or should I wait Synology to release a new file system? Chris
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