apfs highsierra

Hi folks, I am getting super frustrated. I wanted to .Mac my Mac new and Erased my HD. I don’t have a backup. Macbook is 2016and I had high Sierra running. I tried the recover internet mode put keeps saying that there is an error and I should try this application again. I am not sure what I...

Trying to factory reset and perform a clean re-install of OS Sierra on late 2017 15" MacBook Pro 3.1ghz machine to resell to a friend, but not successful due to this error message "Could not create a preboot volume for APFS install" every single time for 4 hours of trying over and over again...

yes, yes it is coming I hear and yes I hope to win the lottery some day Has anyone heard anything about when or even if Apple is going to have the APFS for the Fusion Drive owners? I am beginning to think that they can't get it to work.

After i installed a new 128gb SSD on my macbook late 2009, i used a boot usb with sierra to instal osx... It seems SSD cannot be formated and i get an error <Volume erase failed: Media kit reports not enough space on device> this error needs terminal command to be solved= to write zeroes on...

I wish to reformat my HDDs (2x 1 TB WD) from the OS Extended (Journaled) format to the new APFS, and to make a stripped RAID with these disks. One of these disks is currently my boot drive. The machine is the Mac Pro 5,1 Tower (not a flashed 4,1), running High Sierra. Blackmagic shows that I...

Error unlocking APFS Volume: The given APFS Volume is not locked (-69589) I have an external disk that It was encrypted with File Vault, and now is unreadable, it seems it was interrupted during encryption and it is half encrypted. It doesn't mount, doesn't unmount, doesn't eject, and also...

What are folks using to clone an APFS boot disk to HFS+? CarbonCopy Cloner 5 and 4 appear to refuse to copy system data due to lack of attribute mapping.

Article from carbon copy cloner: https://bombich.com/blog/2017/09/29/think-twice-before-encrypting-your-hfs-volumes-on-high-sierra This was a surprise to me so thought i'd share: CCC discovered if you encrypt your HFS+ formatted drive in High Sierra it will convert it to APFS without telling...

Let's try make a report here with make and models of the SSDs affected by boot and r/w slow downs. I have a 256Gb 840 EVO. HS w/ supplemental update and trim enabled takes 47 seconds from chime to desktop (auto login). I will add the time later with TRIM disabled. Macmini late 2014 2.6Ghz.

I hope someone here may be able to answer this. I am using a MacBook (2016) and an iMac (2015). Of course the MacBook has a solid state drive, and would be converted to APFS on upgrading to High Sierra. That machine hasn't been upgraded yet. The iMac has a fusion drive, and remains HFS+...

Argh. I tried installing the public beta a few weeks ago and got a weird message about firmware verification failure and that I couldn't install it. I figured it would be fixed with the real release today. Nope! APFS doesn't play with some 3rd-party SSDs - apparently including my OWC 6G...

So, I have a Mid-2015 27"iMac that came with a 1Tb Fusion drive. I've replaced the HDD for a 960Gb Sandisk SSD. As Apple SSD is super fast, I kept it. As you know, this iMac has a 24Gb SSD. It's too small to almost anything, so I decided to "fusion" it with the new SSD, by following the DIY...

I have a 2017 SSD iMac and normally when I update to a new OS on past macs I have left the external time machine drive plugged in. Is it worth this year making a time machine back up, then turning time machine off, and ejecting the drive? Is it best with the APFS update to just have the iMac...

Has anybody tried to boot off APFS under High Sierra on a 5,1? Based on beta 4 release notes, only mid 2012 will be officially supported in a future beta.